On 2008-07-07 23:48:17 +0200 Riccardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > >>>> I've written code in SystemConfig in the Étoilé repository for getting >>>> power status on FreeBSD and OpenBSD as well. If this is of any use to >>>> you, feel free to steal it - it's BSDL. >>> >>> Didn't Andreas Schick write an Etoile menulet that used DBus to determine >>> the battery status? It used to be available at >>> www.andreasheppel.de/software.html > > I don't like the idea of depending on DBus. All this power checking has too > many layers, indirections and uncertainity already. Now Linux has also /sys > filesystem and I bet I will end needing to support it alongside of /proc. And this is the exact reason why I went for dbus with my battery menulet. My first approach (on Linux) was to use the apm/acpi stuff in /proc, but this needed regular polling, lots of code to parse the output and (because of the polling) was rather CPU consuming. Once I had the necessary parts of dbus and HAL wrapped in ObjC the rest was child's play. I can see your reasoning against dbus on systems where HW access is simpler and more consistent, but using either conditional code or different bundles you can use the best solution for each OS. And for Linux, that's my opinion, dbus/HAL is the much better solution than polling proc, sys or whatever.
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