On Wednesday 16 November 2011 23:40:49 Timothy Pearson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 November 2011 23:09:20 Timothy Pearson wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> > What of samelians recent progress regarding UPower, and the HAL
> >> > replacement?
> >> >
> >> > Calvin Morrison
> >>
> >> I was unaware of this progress.  Link please? :-)
> >
> > Hehe, I wanted to do a surprise :)
> >
> > This is what I did so far: www.thel.ro/upower.tar.gz
> >
> > This is an abstract layer to upower interface. When will be finished, I
> > will
> > start to develop a replacement for kpowersave based on this layer. I
> > intent
> > to make it as a module for kcontrol (as Power Management or smth like
> > this).
> >
> > However, this will drop HAL partially, we will need to develop more
> > abstraction layers (udisk, networkmanager, etc).
>
> Wow!  I wasn't expecting that--nice work!

Hehe, thanks.

> Are you following the proposed API on the Wiki?

Not exactly, I choose to follow DBus UPower specifications very closely.

> I only ask because the class names look familiar.

We talk about it few months ago and I followed some of ideas (namespacing, 
templates for replies from DBus, etc). However, these are low level clases 
(mostly for speaking with DBus),  we can use it to create more abstractized 
layers, if is needed.

> We can always add the new library to R14.0; the only QA-conditional
> application would be the kpowersave replacement.  I'll wait for you to
> finish that portion and then take a look at it.

No problem, for first release we can provide it as an extra-application (but 
I'm pretty sure that will work as expected).


-- 
Serghei