Suspend and NetworkManager

[Richard Hughes]

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 11:08 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 15:58 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > Now that n-m is in common use (not just fedora and redhat) why shouldn't
> > we remove the NetworkManager sleep/wake code from pm-suspend and g-p-m,
> > and place it directly in the hal-system-power-suspend and
> > hal-system-power-hibernate files. e.g.
> 
> No, I'm positive that the right solution is for gnome-power-manager to
> expose an interface on the session bus that NetworkManager's nm-applet
> can register with and shutdown accordingly. Back in April I wrote about
> it here
> 
>  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/utopia-list/2005-April/msg00002.html
> 
> and I think these thoughts still apply. Do you agree? 
> 
> What you are proposing seems not as optimal and will probably just delay
> the right solution. That's just what I'm thinking - I could be wrong :-)

Well, I'm thinking some of this at least should be handled with
gnome-session, or maybe gnome-power-manager. The implementation
difficulty with NetworkManager is that it's on the system bus, not
per-session.

Richard.