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[pgf at laptop.org]

michael wrote:
 > David -- why quibble over ohm when you've got NM and HAL to worry about?
 > 
 > Paul -- why are the /sys nodes only writable by root?

discounting, possible denial-of-brightness attacks by malicious
screen hackers, no particularly good reason that i know of. 
well, other than ensuring that ohmd is, indeed, used to broker changes
to those values.  on the other hand, i'm not sure whether there's
a precedent for opening up permissions under /sys -- i find no
non-root-writeable nodes on any of 4 machines i just tried.

paul

 > 
 > Michael
 > 
 > On 1/24/09, david at lang.hm <david at lang.hm> wrote:
 > > On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
 > >
 > >> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 3:43 PM,  <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
 > >>> but if ohmd is going to be in the middle, then the published
 > >>> api for requesting those changes should be more transparent than
 > >>> requiring every application be in python and have knowledge of
 > >>> dbus.
 > >>
 > >> There is no python dependency and I personally have no problems with a
 > >> dep on dbus. Leaving aside technical considerations about dbus, pretty
 > >> much everything in the desktop land requires it these days (and ohm is
 > >> heavily based on it afaik). It's not worth to resist the flow ;)
 > >
 > > so is there a standard that says that every desktop must use dbus now? If
 > > so I missed the memo.
 > >
 > > I don't have much of a problem with any individual desktop deciding they
 > > want to use dbus (gnome, kde, etc) as I still have the choice to use other
 > > systems (lxde, windowmaker, etc)
 > >
 > > but to make fundamantal control of the hardware require dbus seems like a
 > > signficant step.
 > >
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