Autosave D-BUS message?

[John (J5) Palmieri]

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.


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John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>