Re: MOUSE battery status applet

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 23:28 +0000, Sergey Udaltsov wrote:
> > Given the scope of the problem, you're better off writing a small daemon
> > that would warn when the battery level is low, rather than an applet.
> > There's no need to know what the battery status is all the time (and
> > I've had an lmctl supported mouse for a year).
> Well, creating separate process sounds like some kind of overkill. I
> wonder - can I piggiback to some existing daemon? Like hald or
> similar?

I meant a desktop daemon, not a system one. An applet is another process
anyway (unless you're making it an shlib).

> > Some additional HAL properties would probably do it fine for getting the
> > mouse power status though.
> Exactly what I mentioned!

Yeah :)

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>