[Goodies-dev] battery plugins

[Ali Abdallah]

Nick Schermer wrote:
> 2009/2/24 Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org>:
>   
>> I was making a summary from an irc discussion.
>>
>> Basically, legacy was seen as useful for non-hal systems (some Linux
>> users which may not want to use hal, and *BSD, Solaris maybe, I don't
>> know).
>>     
>
> Yes, but that does not mean we have to maintain it... If those
> packagers really want a battery plugin they can always pick the legacy
> version from a branch.
>
>   
>> For hal_based vs. xfpm, Brian already said he didn't want a power
>> manager, and thus he was perfectly fine with just a battery plugin.
>>     
>
> I think the power manager and the plugin can perfectly live together,
> sharing code, while not forcing any functionality.
>
>   
Yes, i someone doesn't want to use the power manager then he could 
disabled from starting and just use a panel plugin.

>> Imho an xfpm plugin with xfpm configured to not do anything wouldn't be
>> that heavy, but I don't know.
>>     
>
> I agree.
>
> Nick
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