michael wrote: > David -- why quibble over ohm when you've got NM and HAL to worry about? > > Paul -- why are the /sys nodes only writable by root?
discounting, possible denial-of-brightness attacks by malicious screen hackers, no particularly good reason that i know of. well, other than ensuring that ohmd is, indeed, used to broker changes to those values. on the other hand, i'm not sure whether there's a precedent for opening up permissions under /sys -- i find no non-root-writeable nodes on any of 4 machines i just tried. paul > > Michael > > On 1/24/09, da...@lang.hm <da...@lang.hm> wrote: > > On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > > > >> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 3:43 PM, <p...@laptop.org> wrote: > >>> but if ohmd is going to be in the middle, then the published > >>> api for requesting those changes should be more transparent than > >>> requiring every application be in python and have knowledge of > >>> dbus. > >> > >> There is no python dependency and I personally have no problems with a > >> dep on dbus. Leaving aside technical considerations about dbus, pretty > >> much everything in the desktop land requires it these days (and ohm is > >> heavily based on it afaik). It's not worth to resist the flow ;) > > > > so is there a standard that says that every desktop must use dbus now? If > > so I missed the memo. > > > > I don't have much of a problem with any individual desktop deciding they > > want to use dbus (gnome, kde, etc) as I still have the choice to use other > > systems (lxde, windowmaker, etc) > > > > but to make fundamantal control of the hardware require dbus seems like a > > signficant step. > > > > David Lang > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > Devel@lists.laptop.org > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel =--------------------- paul fox, p...@laptop.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
