Update on DeviceKit

[David Zeuthen]

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 18:44 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> Nobody speak about a "new fancy backlight control daemon". It should simply go 
> into a DeviceKit-powermanagement (or how ever you would like to call it) and 
> should provice at least the same functionality as currently HAL. And because 
> of this KDE or GNOME (or whatever) applications could use simply the new DBus 
> interface instead of HAL. Thats much easier than do everything through X.

Why is this easier than to use X? What happens if you attach a secondary
monitor? What about remote X displays?

     David