2008/5/23 Bastien Nocera <bnocera(a)redhat.com>:
It's already behing the scenes. Just that the policy belongs in
gnome-power-manager, which will show us a nice battery icon for us.
GNOME power manager? Not everyone wants to use that, y'know.
Would you want to rewrite gnome-power-manager instead of using a cut
down version?
Because I don't use GNOME?
We also need a background wallpaper, and sound for accessibility
reasons, as well as a keyboard layout switcher so we let
gnome-settings-daemon handle those. There might be a few windows popping
up, so we could rewrite a smaller window manager (which we'd need to
debug, and fix separately, or we use metacity instead.
Sound, sure. That again points to a "system wide" solution instead of
"desktop centric" ones like PA.
It's not a full desktop environment, it's cut-down versions
of the
software in the desktop, and only carefully selected software is run.
Still going the wrong way, stuff should be developed that isn't
dependent on being "part of a desktop" in the first place.