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

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 09:53 -0500, Shaun McCance 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:
> > > 
> > > > Since the original announcement mail about gnome-power-manager, we have
> > > > moved the mailing list to gnome.org, are now hosted on gnome.org, and am
> > > > starting to integrate with other parts of the GNOME application stack.
> > > > Lots of new functionality has been added, and lots of polish has been
> > > > applied. See the screenshots area of my website[5] for some cool
> > > > screenshots of the latest stuff in the 2-15 branch.
> > > 
> > > 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
> > >  * A capplet (this exists today)
> > >  * A notification area icon (libnotify dependance goes here)
> > 
> > Umm, no.
> > 
> > The IPC between these components would be horrific and over-complicated
> > for no actual gain. KDE are quite happy with their own power management
> > applications, and no KDE developer has ever mentioned to me that they
> > would want such a cross-desktop daemon.
> 
> Does their power management thing use DBus,
>
they use HAL if we're talking about kpowersave

>  and
> if so, do we share a common interface?  I care
> much less about shared code than about shared
> interfaces.
> 
HAL is the shared common interface.
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>