Re: GNOME Power Manager

[David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>]

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 17:20 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> Is HAL even in a state where it could be ported to such systems? I think
> at this point it is so tied to the 2.6 kernel, that it isn't really
> feasible. They would need a separate thing similar to hal, but not
> called hal, but that provides the same d-bus api, as I understand it.

The SUN guys are working on porting HAL to Solaris

 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2006-April/004910.html

I'm not sure why we couldn't split the battstat applet into a separate
tarball for those users who don't have the org.freedesktop.Hal service
at their disposal.

    David