Re: [gpm] Re: Gnome 2.16 Module Proposal: GNOME Power Manager

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 20:52 +0200, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 17:56:50 +0000, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 14:47 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 21:29 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote:
> >> > On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 01:47:12PM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> [...]
> >> > I would like to see g-p-m fragmented into three parts.
> >> > 
> >> >  * A daemon with no GTK+ dependance that would be suitable for
> >> >    cross-desktop use
> >> >  * A capplet (this exists today)
> >> >  * A notification area icon (libnotify dependance goes here)
> >> 
> >> Umm, no.
> [...]
> > So in my opinion it's not that difficult, or am I missing something?
> 
> Well and there is something like this already in pbbuttons 
> 
> http://pbbuttons.berlios.de/
> it has a daemon pbbuttonsd (watching apm/acpi/pmu), nice osd via
> gtkpbbuttons (look at these great screenshots

Erm... it supported /dev/pmu (only Apple hardware) only last time I
looked, although I could be wrong if it's added lots of new stuff very
quickly.

> http://pbbuttons.berlios.de/projects/gtkpbbuttons/screen.html), and
> configuration manager via powerprefs ... and oh well everything can even
> be controlled via cmdline.

You can continue to use pbbuttonsd if you like it. We can discuss
pbbuttonsd if it is proposed for inclusion.

Richard.