On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 12:27 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > That said.. I think acpid just needs to be removed from the distribution > (acpid is fundamentally flawed in many ways) and for the time being > (e.g. until g-p-m will run when no-one is logged in) we could ship a > very small daemon to enforce policy for e.g. powerbutton presses. if > g-p-m is not running (could use a nasty trick to grep the process > list :-). It would of course listen to HAL events and if you write it in > python it would be something like 20-50 lines of code. This could live > in pm-utils. Bill? Hmm. Maybe pm-utils is not the right place IMO, but I agree this could be done in very few lines of code. > Hotkeys on laptops is kinda a mess right now. Some work been done in HAL > CVS to emit events but I'm not sure I like that applications should > listen to HAL to get events a'la "pause button pressed". Ideally the > keyboard drivers in the kernel would be smart and listen for the weird > physical interfaces (some ACPI, some SMBIOS crap etc) that laptop > hotkeys are on and just emit keypresses using the existing input event > framework. Yes, kernel guys: poke. :-) Richard. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
