Keyboard Backlight Support

[Alex Murray]

On 30 September 2010 20:39, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 30 September 2010 12:07, Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> wrote:
>> I already mailed the list with the same question some time ago. See:
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.devicekit.devel/468
>
> Right. I'm still not sure keyboard backlight deserves it's own
> project, and system process. Adding an interface on upower is a few
> hundred lines of code, although I agree it's a slippery slope to
> HALdoom.
>
Would you be keen on such an extension to UPower? How exactly would
you see this fitting in with the existing stuff - would it be a new
device kind??
Any more of an idea you could provide on what you have in mind for
this few hundred lines of could would be great and I'll see what I can
get together?

>> You'd need to create a separate daemon for that, though you could
>> probably get the code in upower's repo, and have the front-end service
>> in gnome-power-manager, if Richard doesn't mind.
>
> Of course, we can hook up events either in gnome-power-manager or
> gnome-settings-daemon.

Indeed, I was more thinking about the backend first then the front-end
would be easy enough - Ideally I'd like to use g-p-m since we can take
advantage of the idle time tracking and simply apply the same policy
to the keyboard backlight as we do the screen backlight (i.e. dim if
idle etc) to make it all nice and integrated and seamless.
>
> Richard.
>
Alex