hal: Branch 'master'

[David Zeuthen]

On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 18:29 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> Mean this HAL don't work with older PolicyKit than PK HEAD? (not good!)

Correct. Is it a problem? There's a bunch of fixes for PK you probably
want to pull in anyway.

> The renaming of the actions (s/hal-power-set-powersave/ 
> org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.set-powersave/) force also all other 
> tools to change their code to get the information (as e.g. KPowersave, g-p-m 
> or powersaved and other which lookup the policy before call something), this 
> is IMO not the best idea within the RC for 0.5.10 and would blow up the 
> complexity of the tools if they have to support more HAL versions than >= 
> 0.5.10., or not?

Keep in mind that you get the action name as part of the exception
detail so you only need to know the action name for the rather oddball
cases where the caller checks himself to e.g. decide to put a lock icon
next to the button. I doubt anyone actually does this yet?

      David