Re: [gpm] Re: Gnome 2.16 Module Proposal: GNOME Power Manager

[Soeren Sonnenburg <desktop-devel-ml nn7 de>]

On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 20:42 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 20:52 +0200, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 17:56:50 +0000, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 14:47 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > >> On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 21:29 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote:
> > >> > On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 01:47:12PM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > [...]
> > >> > I would like to see g-p-m fragmented into three parts.
> > >> > 
> > >> >  * A daemon with no GTK+ dependance that would be suitable for
> > >> >    cross-desktop use
[...]
> > >> Umm, no.
> > [...]
> > > So in my opinion it's not that difficult, or am I missing something?
> > 
> > Well and there is something like this already in pbbuttons 
[...]
> You can continue to use pbbuttonsd if you like it. We can discuss
> pbbuttonsd if it is proposed for inclusion.

This is supposed to say it is nicely doable *if* necessary. I don't know
whether doing it at this stage for g-p-m is necessary or not. But on the
long run it is definitely beneficial to have a single daemon for all
freedesktop's.

Soeren.

PS: FWIW, I would probably switch to g-p-m and add OSD support if I feel
I like it.
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