[Nut-upsdev] Openups patch proposal (KDE, etc.)

[Alphonse]

> To be honest, most of the NUT development effort is focused on 
> shutting down servers, so there isn't a whole lot of work on the 
> desktop side. Having not used KDE in many years, I hadn't heard of Solid.
> For anyone else casually interested, this seems to be a good introduction: http://shubham.chaudhary.xyz/blog/2013/11/09/kde-solid-namespace/
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> And this bug seems to show that "solid-hardware list" is talking to UPower for battery information: https://lists.debian.org/debian-qt-kde/2015/03/msg00554.html
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> Before UPower came along, we had a version of usbhid-ups which was a bridge between the UPS and DeviceKit Power. It was, unfortunately, an either-or proposition: you could have the UPS show up in the GUI, or you could have the traditional NUT upsmon/upsd/driver stack, and all of the network connectivity of the latter. That bridge code no longer exists.
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> However someone could probably write a NUT client that does something similar: connect to a running upsd, and publish UPS information via DBus. I am not volunteering, but it does sound like an interesting idea.
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> In the near term, you might consider KNutClient <http://knut.prynych.cz> or NUT-Monitor <http://www.lestat.st/en/informatique/projets/nut-monitor>.
Thanks for the informations! Actually, I have written a script using 
upsc to monitor the ups and handle the important events, but it should 
be simpler to use some desktop interface. I hope someone will volunteer 
for that; it is beyond my competences.

Anyway, I'd be happy to help by testing patches.