[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#521280: how to make acpid react to hotkeys now?

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:23:40 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> > So essentially the oh-so-typical FLOSS development thing happened:
> > someone decided that a working method is deprecated and just turns
> > it off without even checking whether the functionality can be
> > replaced by anything else.

I had the same feeling, too, or at least that the shiny new stuff
(HAL) has room for improvement in documentation ...
 
> All I know is that it is deprecated for two years(!) now in the kernel at
> large, and that thinkpad-acpi 

Sure; it was, at least for me, a bad coincidence, that both 2.6.29
and x.org 7.4 entered unstable at roughly the same time and quite
some stuff was not (or not the same) working as before.

> > Where do we place our priorities again? I thought it was *users*. :)

At least not users of unstable :)
 
> What
> happened is that we do not pay proper attention to our system-wide
> infrastructure anymore.  Everything is user-session-this,
> desktop-environment-that nowadays.  

I completely agree. When I tried to get at least a basic
understanding of HAL I very often hit instructions like "and then
(gnome,kde,whatever)-FOO-daemon will take care of the rest" or "and
then just use (gnome,kde,whatever)-config-BAR to configure stuff." --
Good to see I'm not the only one disliking this development :)


Cheers,
gregor
 
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