Re: GNOME Power Manager

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 17:20 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> > > Or what about BSD or other systems?
> > 
> > They will have more incentive to port HAL to their OSes, which is a Good
> > Thing for everyone. Also, if someone wanted to create a new module to
> > maintain the battstat applet separate from gnome-applets like happened
> > with gnome-smproxy, they could do that.
> 
> Is HAL even in a state where it could be ported to such systems?

For bsd power management you just need to write the bsd specific things
and expose them as objects with capabilities. Not sure if this would
slot into HAL in the existing infrastructure or need some rework; I
would need some BSD guys to help with this.

Richard.