Mapping form factor

[Kay Sievers]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 17:21, David Zeuthen<david at fubar.dk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 16:12 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:

>> I really don't want to teach
>> gnome-power-manager about the niceties of dmidecode just so it can
>> choose the default policy in a sane way.
>
> No, just make g-p-m read settings from documented GConf properties and
> punt the initial setup to OS installers and system vendors.
>
> Another benefit of doing things this way is that g-p-m won't be this
> magic black box making weird decisions for the user that is backed by
> data that's not really trust-worthy. E.g. things will be a lot easier to
> debug.

Exactly, there is absolutely no way to tell what is a "server". Maybe
the "laptop" classification kind of works (can use better indications
for this), but there is no such thing as a "server" and "desktop" you
can ever retrieve reliably from dmi data.

Kay