Update on DeviceKit

[Daniel Stone]

On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 08:35:14PM +0200, ext Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> 2008/5/7 Daniel Stone <daniel.stone at nokia.com>:
> > On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 06:39:48PM +0100, ext Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > I should probably clarify something here. On a lot of hardware, the
> > > backlight is *not* related to the graphics hardware in any reasonable
> > > way. It's possible to make X handle this, but at that point X is just
> > > your abstraction layer.
> >
> > It's an abstraction layer that already deals with multiple devices and
> > displays both in a sensible way, so HAL would have to strictly follow
> > RandR 1.2 (and only people with DRM modesetting would get that useful
> > mapping) in order to be even remotely useful for configuration.
> 
> What about fast user switching and other systems where you are likely
> to have multiple X daemons? You'd need to teach X to either talk to
> ConsoleKit over DBus or write yet another system daemon to keep track
> of screens changing their active sessions...

If ConsoleKit is indeed the way forward (I get lost in ConsoleKit,
PolicyKit, InitKit, CamelCaseKit, DeviceKit, TextEditorKit), then yes, X
and ConsoleKit are going to need to talk anyway.  *shrug*

Cheers,
Daniel
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