Re: gnome power manager inhibit

[Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>]

Il giorno ven, 19/10/2007 alle 23.15 +0100, Richard Hughes ha scritto:
> On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 18:52 +0100, Odysseus Flappington wrote:
> > It appears to me that how Gnome Power Manager determines whether the
> > computer idle before it suspends/hibernates could be better designed.
> > I understand that it is each application's responsibility to inhibit
> > the computer from sleeping while in use
> > ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GnomePowerManagerInactiveSleep ), however
> > there are so few Gnome apps that actually implement this properly that
> > I'm beginning to believe there must be a better way of doing this. 

> > - While copying files in Nautilus!
> 
> A bug was files many months ago about that - Nautilus needed to pick up
> a dbus dep which the maintainers at the time didn't like. I think we can
> revisit that one now.

The upcoming gvfs depends on dbus. Maybe putting inhibit feature at this
level will be useful for any application using the vfs, not only the
file manager (for example gedit opening a large file from a slow remote
server).