On Tuesday 05 May 2009 23:57:37 Adriaan de Groot wrote: > Are there any *other* HW related things going on? Does consolekit count? > Does powerdevil? I don't think Dario is on this list, but perhaps he should > be. In many cases I'm worried about the long-term cross-platformness of KDE > -- not restricted to Solid or powerdevil -- because of the enormous weight > that modern-linux-based developers put on the scale compared to other > platforms (to the point of no, kde 4.2 won't compile with last year's xorg, > let alone non-xorg platforms).
Yeah, I'm on this list, and replying was on my plans, sorry if I didn't do this early but this week it's exams time. Anyway. My plans for PowerDevil are the ones I described on my blog post here: http://drfav.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/the-future-of-powerdevil-and-of-power- management/ , on which I would have mailed the list (and you Aaron, as I read your blog post and wanted to discuss this with the largest possible developer base, as this is not a light change) to ask for more feedback and guidance, and I take this occasion for doing it now. From the comments (some interesting to read), feedback seems nice. PowerDevil is multiplatform for the most part, however, some pieces are definitely not there. Breaking down Powerdevil into the structure described above would surely help us, though, to split up the relevant non-multiplatform code. On my plans: remove the Idle detection code in PowerDevil and put it somewhere else. Many applications (KMess and Plasma jobs, to say 2) are using an implementation of XScreensaver that is not only bad performance-wise compared to what PowerDevil uses, but hardcoded and not multiplatform. Feedback welcome: I'd like to add a notification library that allows you to: * Get Idle time * Set an amount of idle time after which a signal will be streamed Solid or KDELibs? And where in those two? For Solid-Wicd, the plan is to make it work with the networkmanagement applet, in order for us to be the first to have a multibackend network manager. But this requires quite a lot of work, and Will's take on this could be more helpful than mine. Can't think about anything else right now, sorry if it turned into a "please give me some feedback", but hey, maybe that is what it was meant to be :) > > That, however, is a different thread. -- ------------------- Dario Freddi KDE Developer GPG Key Signature: 511A9A3B
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