On Mon, 31 May 2010 20:21:50 -0400 Christopher Michael <cpmicha...@comcast.net> said:
> On 05/31/2010 08:18 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > On Mon, 31 May 2010 20:04:05 -0400 Christopher > > Michael<cpmicha...@comcast.net> said: > > > >> Going to start working on adding the Add/Del buttons to the ACPI > >> Bindings dialog tomorrow and was wondering if anyone had thoughts on how > >> the Add should work ? > >> > >> Should we display a dialog with the list of available ACPI events ? Or > >> do we want to use an approach like Key bindings dialog where an input > >> window is presented, and the user triggers the ACPI event they are > >> interested in ? > > > > i would go for "like keybindings" - this would be the right way > > Sounds good :) > > ... except there > > may be niggles with acpid doing things like shutting down your box when u > > press power to just begin to set it up... then again you need to fix this > > anyway and get acpid to stop running the scritps that did this to start > > with. so probably good you find out there and then. :) > > > And by "You" I assume you mean "The User" ?? (and not 'me' as in coder > having to work around this) yes - the user. as such there is nothing you can do in code (unless you literally fuck up peoples os's and packages and blindly delete files and screw with the acpi config/package and thats just anti-social). as i know there is no standard generic way to register yourself as a power manager so the acpi scripts/setups/whatever do not shut down, suspend, etc. etc. and leave it to you to do - the user has to modify their distro themselves. right now this is FAQ material. eventually we need to push for distros to adopt some generic solution (their power management scripts read some global config file/dir/whatever and e can insert itself as "hey i manage power stuff so just let things be" ... or... much better - turn it into a proper system power management daemon (dbus let's say) and apps like e register they want to handle power management (and on disconnect from dbus the power management daemon can go back to default handling - eg in case no wm is runing or x fails to launch then at least power button works). but thats long-term and mostly out of our hands and in those of the distros. the quick fix right now is for people - per distro, to figure out how their distro handles the "if gnome, kde, etc. is running - do nothing and let them handle power management" and insert enlightenment into that list too. thats the quick solution for now. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
