Νίκος Αλεξανδρής wrote: > Folks, > > I read that phrase "pommed has been deprecated" since last year (I > think). > > The fact is that "pommed": > * does its job and it does so very fast (brightness keys work faster than in > OS-X I would say) > * is packaged for Karmic and available through the Mactel PPA > * so far does not give any side-effects > > If it is really meant to be abandoned or not used then why is it available? > Thanks, Nikos >
Correct, pommed is supposed to be used together with Karmic. The reason is the deprecation of HAL; Ubuntu, like several other large distros, are moving away from hal in favor of udev and the DeviceKit effort. As a result, Karmic is suffering from functionlity regressions in certain areas, the backlight handling being one of them. Supposedly, these regressions will all be properly addressed in Lucid, and in the meantime, the pommed package (with some minor changes) is suitable as a stand-in. -- Brightness hotkeys not working on MacBook 5,2 and 4,1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/434071 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
