Sherry: > Brian, the problem is that, I don't know at this point what the > feasible solutions and constraints are. Without a better understanding > of the options I don't see bringing the discussions to the community > having any value other than a giant mail flood.
I think there are only about a dozen people on the mailing list. I don't think they will generate any flood. > I expect the mail to the community be > > 1. This is the problem we are trying to solve > 2. These are the options we have considered along with the pros and > cons. > 3. Do you guys see any issues? Do you have better suggestions? Does > what we do seem to align with what you guys are doing? etc > > I only have (1) right now. I think it would be reasonable to file an enhancement request in the bugs.freedesktop.org in the ConsoleKit category and start an email discussion with just (1). There is no shame in asking the external community to help with (2) and (3). Really, this feature is probably not so complicated. We just want to extend the existing ConsoleKit D-Bus IPC interfaces so that: - you can query ConsoleKit to find out what reboot/shutdown options exist. - you can pass those options back to ConsoleKit when a user wants to use those options. We just need to work with the external community to get a feeling for how they recommend we implement those interfaces. What the interfaces should be called, how they should work, etc. > If you think we have sufficient information to send mail to these > aliases, by all means, and please let me know what they suggest. Really, I don't think I am the best person to lead this discussion. Such a discussion will likely involve talking about how shutdown and reboot works on various systems and figuring out the best way to generalize the interfaces. I would think that it would be better for someone with experience in this area to be able to respond to any feedback from the community. Also, Halton and myself are on the mailing list already, so we can help facilitate discussion to make sure that it moves in a positive direction. Perhaps Jedy would be a good person to help with this since he has experience in the Desktop space and the Power Management space. If neither yourself or Jedy can do this, I could act as a middle-man if you like. However, I don't know very much about how reboot and shutdown works, and I think I would likely end up forwarding a lot of emails to you guys asking for answers to any questions raised or requests for more information. Brian
