anyone interested in tpb? (was Re: No more MAKEDEV?)

[Bastien Nocera]

On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 12:15 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> On Fri September 19 2008, Jon Ciesla wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 10:40 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > >> Would anyone care to take over tpb? Or does anyone even use it these
> > >> days? Perhaps we can just drop it?
> > >
> > > Vendor specific daemons such as tpb have been on the way out since we've
> > > been moving the userspace bodges down into proper kernel frameworks.
> > >
> > > ThinkPads, just like any other model, should "just work" without any
> > > special daemons installed.
> >
> > That would be ideal.  Are we to that point currently?  If so, I vote let
> > it EOL.
> 
> I just noticed, that tpb also provides a nice OSD, e.g. for the volume.

And GNOME has a nicer one if you use compositing.

And if your desktop doesn't have a nice OSD for multimedia keys, file a
bug against it instead of using an obsolete daemon.