On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 11:15 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 05:44 -0600, Joey Lee wrote: > > Dear all experts, > > > > I am working on implement function key features in gnome-settings-daemon > > to control wlan/bluetooth/wan. There have some use case need control > > rfkill by userland applications, some netbook use one function key to > > control 2 - 3 wifi devices. On windows, it's also implemented by > > userland application. > > > > Before HAL removed, I enhanced gnome-settings-daemon to control rfkill > > by call HAL dbus function. But, there have no middleware/daemon can help > > applications to control rfkill state after HAL removed. > > > > Kay kindly give me some idea, and after google this topic, found the > > following RedHat bug for gnome-bluetooth: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514798 > > and > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/hotplug/msg02464.html > > > > At last, RedHat direct add user acls for /dev/rfkill by udev rule. > > But, looks like a rfkill daemon still need for > > gnome-bluetooth(bluetoothd). > > > > Follow Marcel's comment: the _better_ way is implement a " > > D-Bus enabled RFKILL daemon that integrates with PolicyKit" > > > > I want to develop a rfkill daemon like upower and udisk, to provide > > D-Bus methods and integrates with PolicyKit, maybe the name is urfkill. > > > > Does it a good idea? Appreciate any suggestions for this topic. > > Probably a good idea. Feel free to steal the bluetooth-killswitch.[ch] > code from gnome-bluetooth to achieve that. > > The current API, though it only really handles Bluetooth adapters, shows > what level of details we'd need on the user-space applications side.
Just chatted a few lines with DavidZ, and thought about: We grant read access for all users at /dev/rfkill. It might be good enough if we have something that can set stuff there with privileged operations, like pkexec, and don't need a full daemon for that? Kay _______________________________________________ devkit-devel mailing list devkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/devkit-devel
