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

["Arnaud Quette" <aquette dev gmail com>]

Hi Simon,

2008/2/29, 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.

interesting links, thanks.
I'll try to talk about this with Richard.

Arnaud
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