Fedora 15, new and exciting plans

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 18:23 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 15:44 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> >> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:35:54AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> >> 
> >> > * Can we finally remove hal? (xfce4.8 shouldn't need it anymore with
> >> >   any luck).
> >> 
> >> Not without a pile of X changes, which themselves are blocking on
> >> upstream kernel changes that I've submitted but which haven't been
> >> merged.
> > 
> > For brightness? For GNOME at least, this is worked around in:
> > http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-power-manager/tree/src/gpm-backlight-
> helper.c
> > though a cleaner fix would certainly be appreciated.
> 
> Huh? KDE trunk (4.6) already uses XRandR backlight setting in PowerDevil:
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/powerdevil/daemon/backends/upower/xrandrbrightness.cpp?revision=1194096&view=markup
> and it appears to work fine for those who have coded this.
> 
> It might not to work for proprietary drivers, but that's those drivers' 
> problem. KDE basically requires XRandR since at least 4.0.
> 

this is a fairly new thing, AIUI:

http://mjg59.livejournal.com/127103.html
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