On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Richard Hughes wrote:
On 1 January 2011 10:19, Ali Abdallah <al...@xfce.org> wrote:
I see now that there is a support for keyboard backlights in upower,
somethings few people cares about, is there is any plan to implement laptop
brightness panel interface in upower so lot of people that losts their
control after completely removing HAL can have this nice feature!
No, In an ideal world all display drivers would just implement the
xbacklight extension in XOrg, and gnome-power-manager can use that. In
the meantime, g-p-m ships a PolicyKit helper that pokes values in
/sys/class/backlight/* if X does not have any working backlight
devices.
Hi (this is my first post to this list).
I don't agree that using X is the best method. There are several reasons
that IMHO are valid for having such feature in upower:
* No X server at all (cosole users should be able to control brightness)
* Legacy X without true hardware control (wayland)
* Non-X display subsystem (android?)
* API consistency
IMHO this makes sense from consistency point of view. Having all power
management control and APIs inside upower would simplify all other
applications.
Best regards
Zygmunt Krynicki
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