questions vanity lights

[Oliver Eichler]

> Next, I had some slight difficulty compiling on my system. I have an FC6
> system. I had to install qt4-devel to compile and run qmake-qt4. Not
> sure if this is intended or not (vs qt3, etc) 

Yes, qt4 is the way to go. The DBus is supported from version 4.2 on.

> 
> This looks interesting, my problem is currently what exactly to do with
> it. It has dependencies outside of what I currently require (qt), so I
> cannot put it directly into libsmbios tarball. It would have to go into
> its own project. That means its own RPM and such. The problem is that I
> have no easy way to test it. I would be willing to write a spec file and
> make the RPM, host it for download, etc. I would probably even maintain
> it for fedora and possibly opensuse (once I figure out the opensuse
> contributor process). But, I would need contributors (you, possibly
> others) to maintain it.

I can understand your concerns against making a dependency to Qt. As
told I just used it to spare me the details. There is a C++ API for the
DBus from freedesktop.org (maintainer of DBus).

As for now, I would suggest to host the xpsdbus package at SourceForge
as a quick solution for all those out there lounging to control these LEDs.

But generally speaking it would make sense to have a dell smbios DBus
service instead of several little command line tools only available to
root. That would allow other's to easily integrate the functionality of
libsmbios into their favorite window manager.

> Here are a few things I saw:

Wow, impressive list :) But you have got several points here. I guess
except the init script stuff I can fix all of them. Concerning the init
script I lack any experience. I just copied blindly the xinetd script
from my SuSE distro. I know next to nothing about Fedora. Sorry.


Oliver