ANNOUNCE: xfce4-power-manager 0.8.4 released

[Ali Abdallah]

Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On mar, 2009-09-29 at 10:12 +0000, Ali Abdallah wrote:
>   
>> I just arrived from my vacation (i think this is the cause of the
>> time 
>> problem). I didn't have time to think about the battery-plugin, for me
>> of course i will be happy to merge it, i remember that Nick agreed on 
>> that, but Brian was against since anybody wants to use the battery 
>> plugin has to install xfpm, for this there is two options:
>>
>> 1) Split xfpm to xfpm and xfpm-plugins, but this will end up having 
>> duplicated code (the code in libxfpm).
>>     
>
> Yeah, not really good.
>
>   
>> 2) having an option in xfpm to build only the panel plugins, strange 
>> option, i never saw a package like that before.
>>     
>
> Hmhm, yeah, maybe not.
>   
>> So i would say i'm ready to merge it whenever everybody is happy with
>> that.
>>     
>
> TBH, the battery plugin is just not maintained nowadays. There was a
> hal_based branch at one point but there wasn't any release. Having a
> battery plugin inside xfpm might benefit for xfpm (imho it's really
> painful not being able to display battery percentage atm).
>
> It may be worth still having a standalone “simple” battery plugin, but
> as the previous one can't deal with multiple batteries and the new
> hal_based is not released…
>
> What do you think?
>
>   
I think it is a better idea to give the option to the users to use the 
battery plugin without having to install xfpm, i would say i'm ready to 
code a standalone battery plugin based of devicekit power, i think this 
is the best option.

Cheers,

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