[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#740353: Bug#740353: Keyboard backlight support

[Christian Kastner]

On 2014-02-28 18:48, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 04:14:36PM +0100, Christian Kastner wrote:
>> 
>> There's a patch for xfce4-power-manager[0] in the Xfce Bugzilla
>> that enables keyboard backlight support using UPower.
>> 
>> [0] https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10470
> 
> Considering it's a feature request not accepted upstream, it's
> unlikely we'll include it in the package.

OK, I'll try to persuade upstream. Looking at relevant thread in the
mailing list[1], I took the "not accepted upstream" part as more of a
maintenance issue within xf-p-m rather than a rejection. Or was my
impression wrong?

Otherwise, I'll try pinging the developer who prepared the 1.2.0 release.

Christian

[1] http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce4-dev/2013-November/030493.html