Re: Beagle indexing when running on batteries

[Lukas Lipka <lukaslipka gmail com>]

Hi,

Actually it is very easy to add HAL support after we drop in the
ndesk-dbus dependency. I have written a set of Hal bindings last month
so actually most of the work is done.

L.

On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 14:10 -0500, D Bera wrote:
> > I see that in Beagle preferences there is an option to enable/disable
> > indexing when running on batteries. Can someone tell me, how do Beagle
> > know if the machine is on AC power or not? Does Beagle use HAL daemon
> > to get this info? If yes, what exactly variables from lshal are used?
> 
> It does not use HAL. It uses the various /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/
> entries. I know its stupid and there are plans to use HAL for that and
> other information - but it is still in the big TODO list.
>