On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 12:42 +0200, Kevin Ottens wrote: > Le vendredi 2 juin 2006 12:14, Holger Macht a écrit : > > On Fri 02. Jun - 12:00:37, Kevin Ottens wrote: > > > I'll give more thought to this and maybe rework my plans. That's an > > > interesting point of view difference. =) > > > > > > Hence why, I won't argue more on this for the moment. Let's get a nice > > > session based interface! > > > > Ok, that's actually what I wanted. A commitment from both desktops, GNOME > > and KDE. So if both sides agree, I can live with it. > > Note that I said _maybe rework my plans_. Currently, I can't say for sure > that > I'll use session daemons, I admit that I prefer a system daemon for this. But > It's a promise to give it more thought, since I think that this approach is > interesting. In the meantime, that would be counter productive to bash a > valuable effort simply because I have a different opinion for now. That's why > I want to see it more tailored and I'll even help where I can. That's the > best way to invest my time to decide which approach (session daemons or > system daemons) I like best for power management.
Sure -- thanks for keeping an open mind. > > > That said I can live with your proposed API, so if I'm the only one > > > to "complain" about your terminology at the API level, I'll surely use it > > > in my own API anyway so that we're consistent (in particular if lower > > > level layers start to use it, I would be comfortable with such a > > > compromise). > > > > But that's actually my point. How can lower level layers use it if it is > > in session context? Lower level layern usually don't reside in session > > context, but nevermind... > > By "it", I meant the terminology (suspend+hibernate). So my point is that I > would be even more comfortable with such a compromise if the underlying > layers name "suspend to disk" as "hibernate", etc. in their own exposed API > (think HAL, powersave, pm-utils, etc.). I'm hoping more and more people will choose to use our terminology; I've certainly had lots of success with vendors who are very keen on a common naming scheme. The translated name (desktop-visible) can be anything you want of course, but it makes sense for all the API layers to be common (in my opinion). Richard. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
