Re: New modules in 2.14

[David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>]

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 23:14 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote:
> I'm with Ryan on this. I think we should give vendors a choice for
> the time being.
> 
> He also raises excellent points about what gnome-power-manager is
> (that is, it is very GNOME centric). When I first envisioned
> something like this, I named it PowerManager and like its namesake
> NetworkManager it was to be largely platform independant. Ideally it
> would offer perhaps a capplet and some manner of system for
> notifications, but other than that would not be intrusive on a GNOME
> desktop. This is unfortunately not how it works.

So, looking again at http://live.gnome.org/PowerManager would you agree
that the only difference to gnome-power-manager is that 

 1) everything is handled in a single process (so we don't need to pass
    preferences from the session to the system daemon); and 

 2) gconf is utilized for reading settings (so we don't have to invent
    yet another configuration system)? 

Because I really can't figure out exactly how one is more intrusive than
the other in the context of a GNOME desktop.

    David