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

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 19:56 +0200, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 14:47 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 21:29 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote:
> > > On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 01:47:12PM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Since the original announcement mail about gnome-power-manager, we have
> > > > moved the mailing list to gnome.org, are now hosted on gnome.org, and am
> > > > starting to integrate with other parts of the GNOME application stack.
> > > > Lots of new functionality has been added, and lots of polish has been
> > > > applied. See the screenshots area of my website[5] for some cool
> > > > screenshots of the latest stuff in the 2-15 branch.
> > > 
> > > I would like to see g-p-m fragmented into three parts.
> > > 
> > >  * A daemon with no GTK+ dependance that would be suitable for
> > >    cross-desktop use
> > >  * A capplet (this exists today)
> > >  * A notification area icon (libnotify dependance goes here)
> > 
> > Umm, no.
> > 
> > The IPC between these components would be horrific and over-complicated
> > for no actual gain. KDE are quite happy with their own power management
> > applications, and no KDE developer has ever mentioned to me that they
> > would want such a cross-desktop daemon.
> > 
> Richard,
> 
> 
> As far as I understand the code of GPM splitting up GPM in a "daemon"
> and a "notication area icon"/applet would not be so hard.
> 
> They are pretty independent from each other. 
> 
> The "daemon" just has to watch batteries, laptop lid, hardware keys and
> take appropriate actions etc. If people run the daemon then they get all
> the power management features. 
> 
> The applet/"notification area icon" just needs to watch the batteries
> (code of the daemon can be reused :-) )and show the status by changing
> it's icon and displaying notifications. 
> 
> The only message I see that the "daemon" might want to send to the
> applet is a message that the system is going to suspend/hibernate and
> that is already something we want to do to notify other apps that the
> system is going to suspend/sleep and that they need to take appropriate
> actions if necessary.
> 
> So in my opinion it's not that difficult, or am I missing something?

But what's the point?

Richard.