Re: [gpm] Should the inhibit applet, when it is in Inhibit Mode, inhibit suspend on lid close?

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 12:57 -0600, Jason Spiro wrote:
> Should the inhibit applet, when it is in Inhibit Mode, inhibit suspend
> on lid close?  I think it normally should.

It doesn't presently, but it should.

> Will this surprise people who put their laptop in its case and then
> realize, hours later, that its battery ran out of juice?  (IMO it will
> not.)

We've got a warning sound for this, maybe we can just do that?

> Also, will it surprise people with laptops that overheat when left
> running with the lid closed?  (I don't know how common such laptops
> are; I've never had one.  I vaguely recall reading about some older
> Mac laptops with the problem; but IIRC even if you installed a Mac OS
> X utility like SleepLess, they still always suspended after 5 minutes.
>  I don't know if it was Mac OS X or the firmware that forced them to
> suspend.)  If it will surprise such users, should the inhibit applet
> show a warning dialog?

Already in bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452244

Richard.