On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 23:15 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > Well, we've discussed quite a few ways of doing this in the past - > kpowersave just checks a blacklist of processes which is completely > wrong way to do it in my opinion. Having a nice interface lets us do > clever things.
(Yeah, at least at one point it was grepping the process list for things like mplayer. Completely insane.) > Well, over time more and more stuff uses these interfaces. I think > brassereo (sp?) already uses the interface when burning a CD. It's > probably a 10 line patch to add this functionality into applications. The original poster specifically mentioned non-GNOME applications. So it might be useful to point people to the freedesktop.org specification covering it. For the record, it's here http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/power-management-spec However, the latest version http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/temp/power-management-spec-0.2.html says the Inhibit API is optional. Maybe that's not a problem though; applications should be able to cope with it. Richard, to help sell the Inhibit API, what other power management gizmos than g-p-m implements the spec and Inhibit interface? David _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
