laptop brightness panel

2011-02-22 Thread Ali Abdallah
Hello, I see now that there is a support for keyboard backlights in upower, somethings few people cares about, is there is any plan to implement laptop brightness panel interface in upower so lot of people that losts their control after completely removing HAL can have this nice feature! Che

Re: laptop brightness panel

2011-01-04 Thread Ali Abdallah
I hope that the acpi brightness will be implemented in upower, for me the correct thing is to have the brightness support working for most of the people, i recall we had this discussion before and for whatever reason it was said that all the brightness support should be on the xrandr part, whic

laptop brightness panel

2011-01-01 Thread Ali Abdallah
Hello, I see now that there is a support for keyboard backlights in upower, somethings few people cares about, is there is any plan to implement laptop brightness panel interface in upower so lot of people that losts their control after completely removing HAL can have this nice feature! Che

Re: UPower 0.9.5 released!

2010-11-17 Thread Ali Abdallah
On 07/12/2010 12:52 PM, Richard Hughes wrote: Version 0.9.5 ~~~ Released: 2010-07-12 New Features: - Add battery query support for iDevices (Bastien Nocera) - Assign names to our idle sources when using new versions of glib2 (Richard Hughes) - Dynamic testing for enough hibernate

Re: UPower 0.9.5 released!

2010-07-20 Thread Ali Abdallah
On 07/12/2010 12:52 PM, Richard Hughes wrote: Version 0.9.5 ~~~ Released: 2010-07-12 New Features: - Add battery query support for iDevices (Bastien Nocera) - Assign names to our idle sources when using new versions of glib2 (Richard Hughes) - Dynamic testing for enough hibernate

Re: UPower 0.9.2 released!

2010-04-08 Thread Ali Abdallah
On 04/06/2010 05:48 PM, Richard Hughes wrote: Version 0.9.2 ~ Released: 2010-04-06 - Do not allow client programs to enumerate the device list more than once (Richard Hughes) I'm just curious about this, why? i know usually clients enumerate the device list only once, but i'

Re: Special device information properties

2010-01-29 Thread Ali Abdallah
On 01/29/2010 08:27 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: But is udev compatible with BSD at all? u{disks,power} are on a higher architecture level than udev, and thus are more abstract and easier to implement on a different OS. So using those APIs has a higher chance of portability than using udev.

Re: Applications using org.freedesktop.DeviceKit.Power directly?

2010-01-18 Thread Ali Abdallah
On 01/18/2010 04:29 PM, Richard Hughes wrote: > 2010/1/18 Ali Abdallah: > >> But we didn't have any release yet, so for me that's fine, i can provide a >> configure switch of the bus name if nothing else is going to be dramatically >> changed >> in the

Re: Applications using org.freedesktop.DeviceKit.Power directly?

2010-01-18 Thread Ali Abdallah
In Xfpm (Xfce's power manager) we decided to use the daemon directly, despite that i asked you to make the devkit-power-gobject library public to be able to use it. But we didn't have any release yet, so for me that's fine, i can provide a configure switch of the bus name if nothing else is goi

Re: DBus method naming of upower/udisks

2009-12-11 Thread Ali Abdallah
On 12/11/2009 12:12 PM, Krzysztof Kotlenga wrote: > Richard Hughes wrote: > > >> 2009/12/11 Martin Pitt: >> >>> Projects should have proper nouns to tell them apart from other >>> projects. Otherwise, why bother, and just call them "kernel", >>> "browser", and "instant-messenger". >>>

Re: DeviceKit-disks renamed to udisks

2009-12-05 Thread Ali Abdallah
David Zeuthen wrote: > On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 09:08 +0100, Ali Abdallah wrote: > >> Are you able to give satisfying answer now? >> > > Yes. > What is it? > >> i don't understand what is the benefit of changing the D-Bus >> name and inv

Re: DeviceKit-disks renamed to udisks

2009-12-03 Thread Ali Abdallah
David Zeuthen wrote: > Hey, > > A lot of people have been asking what's up with the name DeviceKit-disks > now that there is no DeviceKit daemon (which was replaced by libudev and > libgudev). I never really was able to give a satisfying answer. > > Are you able to give satisfying answer now? i

Re: DeviceKit-disks renamed to udisks

2009-12-02 Thread Ali Abdallah
> As an alternate, I'm pretty sure they should work okay if run in > parallel, if a little wasting on resources. > Yeah, of course, with addition to HAL... > Richard. > ___ > devkit-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://li

Re: How to suspend/hibernate remote system without root

2009-11-08 Thread Ali Abdallah
Maxim Levitsky wrote: > dbus-send > --print-reply > --system --dest=org.freedesktop.DeviceKit.Power > /org/freedesktop/DeviceKit/Power org.freedesktop.DeviceKit.Power.Suspend > > But it fails with 'not authorized' message. > Locally it works. > > You need to setup polkit authorization for the

Re: DeviceKit-power and backlight brightness

2009-07-03 Thread Ali Abdallah
Richard Hughes wrote: > but instead require people that use > the code to define I_KNOW_DKP_BACKLIGHT_IS_TEMPORARY This temporary thing will stay for 5 years at least, i saved this mail, will send it back. If this is not going to be implemented in dkp then people will just stick with HAL or wi

Re: DeviceKit-power and backlight brightness

2009-07-02 Thread Ali Abdallah
Richard Hughes wrote: > As we all know, the hal-ectimisation continues. At the moment, > gnome-power-manager still uses HAL for two things: > > * Ambient light sensors > * Setting the backlight on hardware without xrandr BRIGHTNESS support, > or where xrandr falls over > > Now, I've held off adding

Re: udev rules files

2009-05-06 Thread Ali Abdallah
Martin Pitt wrote: > Richard Hughes [2009-05-05 16:20 +0100]: > >> On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 09:50 +0200, Ali Abdallah wrote: >> >>> It is a very good idea to have it in devkit power, i see no >>> applications require lid events other than power managers. &

Re: udev rules files

2009-05-05 Thread Ali Abdallah
Richard Hughes wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 09:50 +0200, Ali Abdallah wrote: > >> It is a very good idea to have it in devkit power, i see no >> applications require lid events other than power managers. >> > > There's a lid-is-closed property exposed i

Re: udev rules files

2009-04-27 Thread Ali Abdallah
Richard Hughes wrote: > On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 16:22 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > >> DeviceKit-power will use libudev, and take over the all the >> power/battery/UPS handling from HAL. At this point, the part of HAL >> will be disabled. >> > > Sure agree. Good email. One question: > > Switche