Re: gnome power manager inhibit

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Hi,

Odysseus Flappington wrote:
> I'm 
> beginning to believe there must be a better way of doing this.

I imagine if people had thought of one they would have done it ;-)

> This is pretty basic laptop stuff, and since equivalent bugs haven't 
> been reported on Windows and that generally I've never come across these 
> problems, I would conclude that they've found a more effective way of 
> implementing this.

The inhibit API is very new, newer than most of the stuff you mention. 
What I'd suggest is filing a bug against each app that does not inhibit 
when it should, with a link to the docs on how to use the inhibit API 
(or a patch that uses it, even better). This won't guarantee immediate 
results but should at least raise awareness and you'll probably see 
results on at least some of the bugs.

Havoc