Richard Hughes wrote: >>Of course, this wonderful system does not exist. Again, >>gnome-power-manager is the best offering we have at this time. >> >> > >Thanks! Making g-p-m very closely tied to other GNOME stuff allows it >and other programs to play nice, e.g. g-p-m telling g-s to lock the >screen after hibernating, all via a nice DBUS interface. g-s can also >use g-p-m to blank the screen using DPMS. > > This always seemed a bit weird to me. Is there any reason to choose this form of integration.
Wouldn't it have been better to make gnome-screensaver listen for the HAL power management events directly, and lock the screen/throttle the screensaver where appropriate? Similarly, why does gnome-screensaver need to ask gnome-power-manager to power down the screen? Isn't this a simple X call that it could do itself? I guess the main question is: why would an app use the gnome-power-manager interfaces to respond to power management events rather than HAL's notifications? James. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list