Re: [gpm] Re: Gnome 2.16 Module Proposal: GNOME Power Manager

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 18:41 +0100, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> Richard Hughes wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 18:02 +0200, Holger Macht wrote:
> >   
> >> Richard, please think about your current opinion and maybe try to help to
> >> get a good solution for the GNOME desktop which usees one common backend.
> >>     
> >
> > gnome-power-manager is a 400k binary. It uses gconf to store a few
> > daemon settings and preferences.
> >
> > HAL does all the heavy lifting doing all the quirks and talking to stuff
> > in /proc and /sys.
> >
> > g-p-m is like the cherry on the cake, small and simple.
> >
> > It really doesn't do much more than:
> >
> > "If battery charge < 10% then notify the user"
> > "If battery charge < 5% then suspend if HAL thinks we can"
> >
> > I really don't see what the big issue is.
> >   
> I really don't think there is (or should be) an issue with GNOME and KDE 
> using different daemons to implement power management policy. That's 
> what the difference between desktops *is*.
> 
> However, Bob being able to send out one DBus message 
> ("InhibitInactiveSleep") in BobsCrackLadenAndCPUIntensiveApp that is 
> picked up by the power management daemon in GNOME and KDE, whichever the 
> app is running under, may be a good thing. And if people really want to 
> standardise this between desktops, this should be the point of 
> standardisation.

That I could agree with.

Maybe org.gnome.PowerManager should be org.freedesktop.PowerManager?

Richard.