mbpeventd status update

Here’s a quick status update for mbpeventd users; PowerBook users may be interested too ;-)

So, here we go:

• DBus support is done
• Graphical clients are available: mbpgtk for a GTK-based application similar to the pbbuttonsd client, wmmbp for a WindowMaker dockapp
• PowerBook support: Yves-Alexis Perez is adding support for the latest PowerBooks with keyboard backlight, and he’s mostly done with it

The GTK client is complete but still needs a bit more work: configuration support, and changing the colors of the progress bar (currently the colors of the current GTK+ 2 theme are used).

Yves-Alexis could probably use some help on the PowerBook front, mainly for identifying the appropriate i2c device to use and other things. If you are interested by using mbpeventd on a PowerBook, check out the mbpeventd-ppc branch and give it a try.

Plan for upcoming releases:

• DBus support and graphical clients
• PowerBook support and graphical clients improvements
• More PowerBook support (more machines supported)

As we’re adding PowerBook support, we’ll be renaming mbpeventd, so watch out for the new name when we’ll merge PowerBook support in :-)

Thanks to:

• Yves-Alexis for the PPC support
• Soeren Sonnenburg for the base of the GTK client

Source code, check it out using svn co :
DBus branch: http://svn.technologeek.org/repos/mbpeventd/branches/mbpeventd-dbus
PPC branch: http://svn.technologeek.org/repos/mbpeventd/branches/mbpeventd-ppc