On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Daniel Drake <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Peter Robinson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > > > > Not sure if powerd makes use of it at all already (for things like > watching > > videos in totem) but why not use the kernel/upower inhibit functionally > just > > like totem and the like does. Then powerd just needs to > > listen/check/whatever for the inhibit and it would then also work (if it > > doesn't already) for those apps like totem in the gnome desktop. > > Good suggestion, I assume you are talking about > http://people.gnome.org/~mccann/gnome-session/docs/gnome-session.html > > Apart from totem, what else uses this? NetworkManager doesn't (and > can't, since it is systemwide and this is only for sessions), so it > wouldn't solve the immediatne problem. > > Unfortunately it would be a lot of work to implement, because > gnome-session implements this interface. We would have to rebase sugar > around that. Then we would have to extend upower to support our > idle-suspend model, and somehow get it to replace or play nice with > powerd (because gnome-session calls into upower for this stuff). And > then we'd have to solve the network problem separately anyway... > > Maybe, I thought it was a system wide thing (maybe a freedesktop thing) that was implemented by gnome using gnome-power-manager. Peter
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