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

[Ikke <eikke eikke com>]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 18:41 +0100, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> 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.
Agree, the DBus interface should most certainly be common (/me remembers
CDIS and hides in a dark corner).
Eg as a Gentoo user I don't want my system to suspend when I'm compiling
something and leave my workstation. GPM got a call for this (indeed,
InhibitInactiveSleep, although it's implementation as far as I saw might
be flawed a little), but you can't expect every developer doing
something like
	if(user_runs_gnome)
		do_dbus_call("org.gnome.PowerManager", fooargs,...);
	if(user_runs_kde)
		do_dbus_call("org.kde.KPowerDaemon", fooargs,...);
	if(user_runs_some_other_power_manager)
		do_something_else();
etc

As mentioned before, a shared base interface is a must, extra
implementation-specific calls can be added on top of that when
appropriate.

Just my .02,

Ikke
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