2014-12-09 20:24 GMT+01:00 Jakob Demler <ja...@sprachkurse-weltweit.de>: > Hello, > > First of all i want to say, that i am new to the LXQt project to > opensource development in general. > But i want to learn something and my laptops brightness keys don't work > with lxqt. > Looking at https://github.com/lxde/lxqt/issues/36 i wondered if > backlight control should be integrated into the lxqt-powermanagement > project or, similar to volume control, as a plugin. > > While browsing the lxqt-panel and plugin code i noticed that there are > currently two ways to get the paths to the directory where the plugins > should be found: > > In plugin.cpp line 75-77: > QStringList dirs; > dirs << > QProcessEnvironment::systemEnvironment().value("LXQTPANEL_PLUGIN_PATH").split(":"); > dirs << PLUGIN_DIR; > > And in lxqtpanel.cpp line 295-297 > dirs << QString(getenv("LXQT_PANEL_PLUGINS_DIR")).split(':', > QString::SkipEmptyParts); > dirs << QString("%1/%2").arg(XdgDirs::dataHome(), "/lxqt/lxqt-panel"); > dirs << PLUGIN_DESKTOPS_DIR; > > So when i tried to get the code to run with the volume control plugin, > lxqtpanel found it (because the LXQT_PANEL_PLUGINS_DIR was set) but > plugin.cpp didn't find it. > Is that a bug or is there a reason for that? > > > Additionaly to that i have two more general questions: > 1. Is this the right place to post these kinds of questions?
Yes, certainly. And welcome on board :-). > 2. At the moment i think the backlight control code should be inside the > powermanagement project. > Reasons: Backlight control should work without plugin and the code > belongs to that area semantically, imo. > Would you agree? No not really. lxqt-powermanagement is an application that monitors battery, lid and users idleness and acts based on some configurable rules. What it does, it does by calling liblxqt *). lxqt-powermanagement should not it self talk directly to the underlying window system (XWindows, in the future Wayland). We would probably like to use backlight control from various places - eg. keyboard configuration, monitor configuration and powermanagement, so the code should be in liblxqt IMO. br. Chr. *) Actually some of the idleness stuff involves direct communication with X11, but that should IMO be factored out and moved to liblxq. > > Best regards, > > Jakob > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server > from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards > with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more > Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Lxde-list mailing list > Lxde-list@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list Lxde-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
