On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 17:21, David Zeuthen<da...@fubar.dk> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 16:12 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
>> I really don't want to teach >> gnome-power-manager about the niceties of dmidecode just so it can >> choose the default policy in a sane way. > > No, just make g-p-m read settings from documented GConf properties and > punt the initial setup to OS installers and system vendors. > > Another benefit of doing things this way is that g-p-m won't be this > magic black box making weird decisions for the user that is backed by > data that's not really trust-worthy. E.g. things will be a lot easier to > debug. Exactly, there is absolutely no way to tell what is a "server". Maybe the "laptop" classification kind of works (can use better indications for this), but there is no such thing as a "server" and "desktop" you can ever retrieve reliably from dmi data. Kay _______________________________________________ devkit-devel mailing list devkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/devkit-devel
