Re: [gpm] (gnome-)power-manager

["simon zheng sun com" <Simon Zheng Sun COM>]

Arnaud Quette wrote:
> 2008/2/25, Tomáš Šafařík <safarik server cz>:
>   
> > Hi,
> >
> >  I'd like to ask (or consider it as suggestion) if developers of g-p-m
> >  ever tought about idea of making g-m-p more like network-manager. I mean
> >  having independent daemon and set of clients for gnome, kde, console
> >  etc. i was thinking abut this recently and also previous Dan's email
> >  reminded me this.
> >     
>
> seconded+++
> This is not the first time I see such a request, and it would make the
> life easier for our KDE / Xfce / <insert your prefered WM / env
> here...>
>   

Agree, +1. It seems to be make sense to have such a desktop-neutral PM 
daemon. Since D-Bus and hal are both desktop-neutral, desktop-neutral 
g-p-m daemon is possible.As of now, an unified D-Bus interfaces 
"org.freedesktop.PowerManagement" is well designed, see 
http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/temp/power-management-spec-0.2.html.

This daemon must be a system-wide daemon. So, one problem I can see is 
this system-wide daemon looks more like a *hal addon*. If so, why not 
put into HAL directly.

I guess Richard has more ideas about the next generation of GPM, please 
refer to http://live.gnome.org/BetterPowerManager. Perhaps we should add 
the above request to there too.

Thanks,
-Simon

> Moreover, this would also:
> - federate the various FLOSS PM effort, and gather more resource to
> work on this,
> - solve the UPS support problem for Integrated Power Management on
> servers (so console only).
> Well I don't see the need for console support apart from the above, or
> possibly resurrecting an old laptop as a "headless" server...
>
> Maybe logging a feature request in the tracker would help.
>
> Arnaud
>