On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 19:18 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > This looks really really good, this has come a long way. One minor > nitpick is that perhaps it's not super interesting to adjust the timeout > for hard disk spin down, perhaps just provide a check box?
Thanks. :-) What would the checkbox default to - I would want say an hour or more on ac, 10 minutes on battery, and NEVER on my server. > Perhaps the sleep options is something hal should somehow know (never > mind the details from where we get this for now) and tell g-p-m? I think > so, I'm thinking hal would export the following properties on the > computer object > > bool power_management.sleep.can_quick_sleep (in ACPI this is S1) > bool power_management.sleep.can_deep_sleep (in ACPI this is S3) > bool power_management.sleep.can_hibernate (in ACPI this is S4) Yes, I was thinking the same thing. GPM should get all computer information from HAL - then it can be re-used by other applications too. > (btw, today we already have power_management.is_enabled, .type > and .acpi.linux.version) > > to suitably abstract the various ways the system sleep. This is not to > say g-p-m should map that 1-1 to the user interface; what could be > interesting would be to have g-p-m manage running->S1->S3->S4 after a > suitable interval. For this to work we'd also want > > bool power_management.sleep.can_wakeup_during_sleep Didn't know you could do this - I don't think my laptop supports this. Thanks for your help, Richard. _______________________________________________ utopia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/utopia-list
