Re: blocking bug for laptop users (OT sightly )

[Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com>]

On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 14:20 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 23:29 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 20:03 +0000, yelo_3 wrote:
> > > it is blocking because people using a hotkey to switch of/off
> > > wireless, will see a different status in the applet:
> > > - the hotkey toggles wireless using the dbus method setWirelessEnabled
> > > - the applet does not update itself, so the user who disables
> > > wireless, will see in the applet that wireless is enabled, and the
> > > exact list of wireless network that were active before he had hit the
> > > hotkey
> > 
> > That's not the right way to do it, especially as some "hotkeys" act
> > directly on the hardware. The correct way to do it is:
> > - have HAL do get/set on the hardware (either using custom APIs for each
> > models, like already implemented for Dells, or the generic kernel rfkill
> > API)
> > - Make NetworkManager handle the get/set from the hardware
> 
> 
> Apparently HAL 0.5.9 has limited rfkill support, and that's what we
> should be hooking into with NM now.

Is this supposed to send a dbus message ?
The only thing i was able to see is bluez hardware removed, and thats
all :(

I use a Dell D620 , with rkill switch mapped against bluetooth, and
wireless .

	
> 
> Dan
> 
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