Hey, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > A couple quick points: > > 1) the URL to gnome 2.16 release notes doesn't work!
Yeah, I don't think the release notes have yet been published, since GNOME 2.16 is still in beta. I was provided since it'll definitely exist in the future [not so helpful for reviews though]. > 2) the gnome-power-manager. I'm keenly interested in this application > as a developer for a producer of mobile workstations. To my knowledge, > Solaris currently lacks a robust API for userland access to power > management features, including battery status, power source management, > thermals, etc. If this utility is to be integrated into Solaris, > doesn't it make sense that first some effort be expended to create a > good (and hopefully cross-platform -- i.e. usable for SPARC as well as > x86!) API for userland programs to access this kind of data? I would > request that PSARC/LSARC consider a request for this API to be specified > before blindly including software that is too PC or Linux oriented to be > useful going forward. > > In support of point number 2, I am willing to spend time to assist in > the development of such an API, as well as enhancement of desktop > applications (gnome-power-manager, or otherwise) so that the tools can > be useful across the full range of platforms supported by Solaris, from > multi-million dollar SPARC servers to small x86 laptops. Currently this is all done through HAL, the hardware abstraction layer, that provides a similar API like this. HAL is part of PSARC 2005/399 Tamarack: Removable Media Enhancements in Solaris, which you'll hopefully start to see glimpses of in the next couple of ON builds. Glynn
