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[Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Νίκος Αλεξανδρής wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I read that phrase "pommed has been deprecated" since last year (I
> think).
> 
> The fact is that "pommed":
> * does its job and it does so very fast (brightness keys work faster than in OS-X I would say)
> * is packaged for Karmic and available through the Mactel PPA
> * so far does not give any side-effects
> 
> If it is really meant to be abandoned or not used then why is it available?
> Thanks, Nikos
> 

Correct, pommed is supposed to be used together with Karmic. The reason is the
deprecation of HAL; Ubuntu, like several other large distros, are moving away
from hal in favor of udev and the DeviceKit effort. As a result, Karmic is
suffering from functionlity regressions in certain areas, the backlight handling
being one of them. Supposedly, these regressions will all be properly addressed
in Lucid, and in the meantime, the pommed package (with some minor changes) is
suitable as a stand-in.