Richard Hughes [2009-07-03 19:57 +0100]: > I would be happy to maintain a tiny service called > DeviceKit-backlight, and remove all the backlight stuff from > DeviceKit-power if that's a compromise people are willing to accept. > > We can then remove only install DeviceKit-backlight on embedded > systems (without X) and also only start it on desktops if we don't > have working xbacklight.
>From a distro's POV that sounds much better than having to ship the full hal just for backlight support, in the sense of "a small and focused ugliness is better than a large ugliness". On the con side this will take some pressure out of the "fix it in X" movement, of couse. Unfortunately I have no idea at all how much work it actually is to fix X properly? Thanks, and have a nice Sunday! Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) _______________________________________________ devkit-devel mailing list devkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/devkit-devel
