DeviceKit-power future plans

[Richard Hughes]

On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 23:23 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:41, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 11:58 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> 
> >>  - What's up with the libdevkit-power? Is this a C wrapper for the D-Bus
> >>    service? I think we want to export this... just use proper and nice
> >>    D-Bus bindings instead.
> >
> > Well, it's mainly because dbus-glib sucks as a binding. Originally the
> > library was static as was just used internally, but I made it shared so
> > that I could reuse giant chunks of it in the modified
> > gnome-power-manager.
> 
> Are you sure that is needed? Why does g-p-m will need a lib to use the
> D-Bus interface? If you need that, does the interface export the
> things in the right way?

Ohh, it's not needed, it's just a convenience wrapper to make working
with a set of dbus objects a bit nicer. It might make more sense to just
copy the couple of files from project to project, although it does make
keeping them in sync a pain.

Richard.