Re: GNOME Power Manager

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

Rodney Dawes wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 16:03 -0400, Bryan Clark wrote:
>   
> > FWIW I think this project is awesome and should be 'blessed' into GNOME,
> > it's made a large improvement to power issues the desktop has had for a 
> > while now.  I'd recommend dropping the batstat applet in favor of this, 
> > while batstat is great we really only need one battery 'applet thing' in 
> > GNOME.
> >     
>
> What do I use for my machines where I must run a Linux 2.4 kernel
> then? :)

We Have Had This Discussion Before [1].

The consensus then [2] was that (new) functionality just depending on 
HAL is fine, because HAL is our approved method of getting hardware 
events from different operating systems. Linux 2.4 doesn't support it, 
but everyone's migrating away from that anyway.

This situation is slightly different in that we're replacing 
functionality; my reaction would be that the small number of users still 
using 2.4 kernels can install battstat (hell, they've got it installed 
already; they just need to remember not to randomly delete it!). 
However, our "GNOME Desktop" (which is basically a recommendation to 
distros, and all the distros are on 2.6) only needs to work on 2.6.

[1] 
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-June/msg00243.html
[2] 
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-August/msg00167.html

--
Andrew