Package: upower Version: 0.9.10-1 Severity: normal Hey,
back in the hal time, xfce4-power-manager (and gnome-power-manager) could use it to know if the platform supported brightness keys or not, and if it had to do the job itself. For example on thinkpads the platform does it itself (wether directly by the EC or using the acpi video driver) and userspace doesn't have to do anything but display notification (if wanted). On other hardware, userland needs to take care of that, and xfpm/gpm did the job. Now, hal is gone and xfpm/gpm use upower, but apparently the information about brightness support is not available anymore. I'm not sure how gpm handles that, but in xfpm that means it tries to handle the key itself, meaning we get two steps each time one press brigthness keys (once by the platform, once by xfpm). So it'd be nice if upower could start providing this information to users, especially xfpm and gpm. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages upower depends on: ii dbus 1.4.8-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libc6 2.13-4 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdbus-1-3 1.4.8-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.92-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.6-2 GLib library of C routines ii libgudev-1.0-0 168-2 GObject-based wrapper library for pn libimobiledevice1 <none> (no description available) ii libplist1 1.4-2 Library for handling Apple binary ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.101-4 PolicyKit Authorization API ii libupower-glib1 0.9.10-1 abstraction for power management - ii libusb-1.0-0 2:1.0.8-2 userspace USB programming library ii pm-utils 1.4.1-8 utilities and scripts for power ma ii udev 168-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo Versions of packages upower recommends: ii policykit-1 0.101-4 framework for managing administrat upower suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
