Re: [gpm] Feature request

[David Weinehall <david weinehall nokia com>]

On tor, 2007-05-24 at 13:30 +0200, ext André Rüdiger wrote:
> On 5/24/07, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 12:38 +0200, André Rüdiger wrote:
> > >
> > > What about an option "Shut down when all tasks are completed". This
> > > would shut down the machine when no application is inhibiting a sleep.
> > > So I could rip a CD or watch a movie and gpm would shut down my
> > > computer automatically afterwards. Very handy when you want to rip a
> > > CD and have to leave the house soon or when you want to listen to a
> > > tracklist and want the computer to sleep at the same time as you
> > > do. :)
> >
> > Why not just hibernate? When the machine has hibernated it essentially
> > is off...

Not all devices have working hibernation; most have working shutdown...

> Hibernation or power off could just be an option. Doing it
> AUTOMATICALLY after all tasks are completed and the machine is idle is
> the point here. The use cases I mentioned should illustrate that.

This is a very nice idea, but with some caveats:

1.) This needs to be visualised very clearly; possibly with a modal
dialog or similar, to make sure the user doesn't start working on
something else that suddenly goes boom when the device shuts down

2.) How do you determine what constitutes an idle machine?  After all,
there are always a lot of processes running... Applets, daemons, etc.

3.) Isn't this something that would fit better in gnome-schedule?


Regards: David