On Mon 08. Jan - 15:56:33, Richard Hughes wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 15:57 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote: > > Right now, we have two policy-managers (i know of): > > gnome-power-manager > > and kpowersave. Kpowersave right now is simply broken (or "feature > > incomplete") wrt. button and lid events. This is kind of embarassing, > > but nothing that shows the need for a redesign, we just need to fix > > the bug / implement the functions, and this will happen soon (and then > > be available as an update for openSUSE 10.2). > > Will the new kpowersave implement some of the session based DBUS stuff > similar like we do in gnome-power-manager? If it is, I would like the > kpowersave guys to look over my spec interface and see how much of it > looks good for them. I would love some of this (stripped down version) > to become some sort of cross desktop org.freedesktop.PowerManagement > interface but it might be too GNOME specific and need to be made more > general.
I remember that we already had a small discussion about some parts of that interface ;-) Until now kpowersave doesn't do this yet, but I hope it will in future. > Cool new session stuff for me is the inhibit thing for auto-sleep, and > session based sleep notification for stuff like GAIM and NetworkManager > and integration with lockdown. > There's also stuff for the brightness and UI so a trivial lightweight > front-end can be used with Sugar icons or Maemo widgets. > > The proposed interface is here: > http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/gnome-power-manager/trunk/docs/dbus-interface.html > > Please tell me about any naming funnies, or areas that don't look right. > > Other suggestions welcome as well, thanks. I'm defintely an advocate for doing common, cross-desktop things. So we will surely come up to you with some suggestions/ commitments/ whatever in the near future. Stay tuned. Regards, Holger _______________________________________________ Pm-utils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils
