Re: [gpm] Feature request

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 14:41 +0300, David Weinehall wrote:
> On tor, 2007-05-24 at 13:30 +0200, ext Andr�� wrote:
> > On 5/24/07, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 12:38 +0200, Andr�� 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...

Then we fix the devices rather than work round it in the UI. :-)

> > 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.

You want to look at session inhibiting of gnome-screensaver.

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

Perhaps.

Richard.