nonnoroger wrote: > But the bug report I am asking people to vote for goes back years.
Yes, but the problem occurred because some machines (not all, I think) simply did not behave the way Apple stated that sleep worked. That is, they would sleep even when there was hard drive activity, although Apple specifically stated that hard drive activity prevented sleep. It would have been a nice feature if Logitech/SlimDevices had worked round this, but it was hardly a bug . > I am not sure if you mean it is an issue for Apple to sort out or an > Apple-specific issue for Logitech. My view is that Apple at last have it > right. I think it is great that my Mac Mini will at last go to sleep > reliably after the time I have set in preferences. It is each App that > knows best whether it needs to override these defaults. With the power > assertions they have at last given the tools that allow App developers > to implement this. I agree with you. Power assertions seems a good way to go. I wonder if Apple just decided that hard drive activity simply did not prevent sleep reliably enough, and decided to provide power assertions. > Sorry but this is the wrong way round. We should not need Caffeine > anymore if developers cotton on and adapt their programs for ML. I would > worry that providing such a menu bar facility would give developers a > get-out from doing so. Using caffeinate directly from the command line > gives us all we really *need* in the mean time - apart from > convenience. > > We should not need third party sleep timers or third party keep-awake > timer kludges. > > Logitech, along with other developers need to be pushed to take > advantage of power assertions under ML. I partly agree. Certainly developers need to take advantage of power assertions. I am not sure that it is a matter of "pushing", as developers do need time to respond to the changes in ML. caffeinate from the command-line is, as you say, all we *need*, but a double-clickable file (even if not a menu bar item) is *much* more convenient. I have several programs that are still useful but are no longer being developed, so caffeinate (via command-line or shell script) is needed. And others where from time to time I want my computer and display awake, so that I can see what is going on with them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ danco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=210 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95980 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
