On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:21:48PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> - backlight dimming is handled by gnome > >> - "function" keys are very well handled by xorg & gnome > >> - suspend to ram is handled by gnome-power-manager > >> What else do you need ? > > Not everyone's using Gnome. > > I'm not arguing for/against pbbuttonsd. I just see that a lot of what > it provides is already provided in a machine-agnostic way by other parts > of the system (be it Gnome/KDE or more core parts of the system).
The fact that they are machine-agnostic does have its issues. One of the upsides of pbbuttonsd (in my opinion) is that in its default configuration, it actually matches what's printed on my keyboard: if I hit the 'volume down' key, it will actually lower the volume -- without the need for any configuration. For all the other options out there, I have to manually configure things. Not that I don't know how to do that, but it's easier if I don't have to. Pbbuttonsd also knows about some apple-specific features that the machine-agnostic things don't know about, such as keyboard backlight etc. All that makes it more interesting than any of the alternatives on apple hardware, IMO. -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
