Comment 9 for bug 385723

The hal support for smartdimmer isn't going away anytime soon, so for these platforms it's perhaps possible to add back the gnome-power-manager support for it. That's why there is a gnome-power-manager task here.

But I see no chance of devkit-power ever getting support for smartdimmer. The entire idea of smartdimmer is a hack, device drivers belong into kernel just as any other backlight interface the kernel offers. If X.org merges the smartdimmer logic in its xbacklight support, that's fine of course.

This shouldn't affect KDE at all at the moment. KDE 4 uses hal.