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

[martin f krafft]

also sprach gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> [2009.04.21.1948 +0200]:
> 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 :)

Fundamentally, HAL is a great idea, as is dbus. Even though we
usually associate them with desktops and new-fangled stuff, both
actually also make sense on a server, where abstracted hardware is
just as useful as a central policy-based routing engine for
messages.

The problem is that you don't *need* those things for servers (yet).
As a result, it's desktop-oriented people who implement the first
versions of these tools, and they have a very different
understanding of needs than people who are used to actually *system*
administration.

I don't want to bitch, but maybe we just need some non-(free)desktop
people to put some love into HAL and give it the ability to do
anything you like, not just generate input events.

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