> On Friday 30 March 2012 20:52:42 Timothy Pearson wrote:
> [...]
>
>> The funny thing is that the HAL dependency bug is among the oldest open
>> bug reports on the tracker, dating back almost to the fork of KDE3.5.
>> It
>> is also one of the first things other desktops environments throw at us
>> to
>> claim that TDE is obsolete.  This is high priority for me to fix, it has
>> been over 3 years and in all that time no one has had the requisite
>> expertise to repair it.
>
> We have already suspend/hibernate support based on upower. Now I'm trying
> to
> replace HAL on mediamanager, using udisks2. This will take some time,
> because
> udisks2 is pretty new and is not very well documented.

Could you focus on interfacing upower with kpowersave instead?  udisks is
a dead end from what I have been reading, and I already have a very large
chunk of the needed generic udev interface, along with disk handling,
completed as of yesterday night.

Thanks!

Tim