[maemo-developers] source code of status bar entries?

[From: Martijn Faassen]

David Weinehall wrote:
> On tis, 2007-12-04 at 10:16 +0200, ext Joni Valtanen wrote:
>> Applets are closed source.
>>
>> Just make your own applets. backlight and many other can be found from 
>> /sys/devices/platform/... ...and volume is propably easiest to adjust 
>> with alsa.
> 
> Adjusting the backlight directly from the applet via the sysfs entry is
> not gonna work; you'd race with the logic in mce & dsme that takes care
> of it.  If you want to make an applet to replace the current one, write
> the value to the GConf entry for brightness instead.

Yup, too bad I couldn't just tweak the existing one and do it the right 
way straight away. Presuming they do it right, of course. Perhaps their 
closed-sourcedness leads us to a path of improved implementation? :)

Regards,

Martijn