DeviceKit-power and backlight brightness

[Kay Sievers]

On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 10:51, Richard Hughes<hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/7/3 Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>:
>> How's that for a compromise?
>
> Ohh, forgot to add, I've reverted the stuff from DeviceKit-power and
> g-p-m as I wanted to make a release on Monday, and don't want to
> release code in one release that we remove/move in the very next.

Thanks for doing this. And let us start to look for the proper
solution of the problem now.

> I also didn't appreciate the aggressiveness on this thread. I'm sure
> people reading the list feel the same. This is software, not religion.

Don't get that too personal please. We just take it very serious, and
have to get it right this time.

We have something that works already, HAL, but it grew to something
not really maintainable. Backlight control does not belong into
DeviceKit-power, it's the wrong domain/subsystem, and we need to make
sure we keep the responsibilities properly separated with the new
stuff.

There is not much point to start the same what we did with HAL, and
add ad-hoc (even when marked temporary) public interfaces which do not
belong there in the first place.

It's not much about religion, it's just that we learned our lesson,
and try to care this time. You are one of the first adopters of the
new stuff, and it's great to have you on board supporting the project,
making things work, and being enthusiastic about it. But keep in mind,
that by doing things in this early stage, you also form the rules
where we head to, and people will follow and copy your stuff as a
starting point for other projects. That's why we need be that strict
and careful here.

There is no real rush to get rid of HAL, if we get back the same hacks
with a different name. The sooner we can kill HAL the better, but the
deal must be worth it. If you want, call HAL "software" and you know
very well where it ended up. :)

Thanks,
Kay