Autosave D-BUS message?

[Waldo Bastian]

On Wednesday 29 June 2005 01:08, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 14:25 -0700, Sean Meiners wrote:
> > We (Linspire) are actually planning on having the hibernation scripts
> > generate a signal on the system bus that announces that the system is
> > going to sleep. This way any application who cares (we had only thought
> > of network apps like Gaim & Mozilla so far) can 'prepare' themselves
> > properly.  I wasn't planing on hashing out the details for some time yet,
> > but since is looks like we're not the only ones thinking about this it
> > would make sence to lay out the object/path/signal(s) now so that we're
> > all compatible.
>
> I think davidz was doing stuff for this in HAL.  It knows when the lid
> is closed or the user has pressed the suspend button so it would be nice
> to have HAL send those signals.

What kind of preparations do we expect applications to take? Is there anything 
other than "The network is about to die" that applications may be concerned 
about? Because that's something that you may want to handle as part of a more 
generic online/offline network manager service.

Cheers,
Waldo
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