On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 17:32 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > I'm not sure we want to let sessions inject data into DeviceKit-power; > > seems very complicated for handling the rather edge cases like this. > > > > Why can't gnome-power-manager (or whatever component that is drawing the > > UI) simply provide a very simple D-Bus interface that things like > > gnome-phone-manager can hook into to post data?
Then we have to add in a layer of data, and we start putting logic in the session, not the system. This is what I wanted to avoid doing. > > (FWIW, I'd like to use this kind of interface too for my gphoto2 GVfs > > backend; it's possible to read how much juice on these devices) Right. This is useful for all users tho right? > I agree with David there, as there are a couple more places where we > could be posting battery information. Sure. > Though there is a case (in the input plugin for bluetoothd, in my case) > where posting information from a system bus would be useful, at the > DK-power level. Yes, this is what I'm thinking. If we allowing people to fast-user-switch then we should probably be exposing this lower down. Richard. _______________________________________________ devkit-devel mailing list devkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/devkit-devel
