Re: Requiring systemd for the gnome-settings-daemon power plugin

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 17:38 -0400, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote:

> 1. suspend / hibernate / poweroff / reboot

The challenge is that it's not just about an API call which ends up as
executing /usr/sbin/reboot or some other platform-specific mechanism.
It's about modeling state.

The canonical bug I use when describing the value in the tight
GNOME/logind integration is stuff like pressing shutdown in the UI, then
closing the laptop lid and having the system unexpectedly suspend in the
middle of shutdown.  Left hand unaware of what right hand is doing sort
of bug.  Really the only way to fix these kinds of things is to have one
component of the system managing state, or at least multiple components
that are tightly coordinated.

Anyways, the best starting point for this is probably gnome-session's
gsm-system.h, which already wraps a lot of things.  Stuff like the
inhibitors is stubbed out for ConsoleKit, but that's fine, it's not
regressing anything.