New wip/gdbus branch for UPower

[Tom Gundersen]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 13:18 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> wrote:
>> > - Requesting suspend/hibernate/hybrid suspend on behalf of the session
>> > on critical battery
>>
>> How do you envision this working?
>>
>> In particular, do you think it would make sense to allow some sort of
>> collaboration with some system daemon? The reason I ask is that we
>> probably want something sensible to happen on low battery even if no
>> session has been started (or where the only started sessions don't run
>> a power manager).
>
> UPower would call logind to suspend when the battery[1] is lower than a
> certain level. I'm moving the policy to determine whether the battery is
> considered critical to UPower itself.
>
> Each device and the daemon would have a "warning-level" property (none,
> low, critical, action). The session daemons would use none/low/critical
> levels to show warnings, and UPower itself the "action" level to call
> for hibernate or power off.

Great. Makes perfect sense.

Thanks,

Tom