Re: G-S-D support wireless/touchpad switch

[Lin Ma <Lin Ma Sun COM>]

Jens Granseuer wrote:
> On 26.11.2008 19:36, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 18:40 +0100, Jens Granseuer wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > One alternative way to do it might be to show a
> > > "do you want to kill wireless?" popup, and only if the
> > > hotkey is pressed a second time while the window is
> > > visible actually kill it.
> > >
> > > I think that's at least better than adding controls.
> > > The question is whether it's feasible to do it that
> > > way without adding text to the OSD, though.
> >
> > NetworkManager and bluez-gnome already have support for killing those
> > network interfaces. Why do we want another handler?
Do they support hotkey? Furthermore do they support the input of 
switching on/off from Hal or X server?
I hope g-s-d to support hotkeys rather than the functionality to 
"killing them". If these tools export the interfaces, g-s-d hotkey 
implementation should use them.

> I suppose we don't. To arrive at that conclusion one
> has to know that somebody else is doing the job already,
> though. Which is (among other things) why we're having this
> discussion on the ml.
>
> Cheers,
> Jens
Thanks,
lin