CK: more paranoia, idle status, and creation-time

[Richard Hughes]

On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 10:40 -0500, William Jon McCann wrote:
> The property change notification is emitted from the CK session
> object.  In the case where the session is GNOME related this property
> is set by gnome-screensaver.  So, I don't think there is much
> advantage to gnome-power-manager not listening to gnome-screensaver
> directly.  There are some disadvantages like adding more points of
> failure, the fact that this property is not necessarily authoritative
> (at the moment anything can use the SetIdle method - not just a
> screensaver or presence monitor), and that we don't track the
> lifecycle of the caller (don't handle if it calls SetIdle and then
> dies). 

ConsoleKit runs as root and monitors sessions. Why not just make the
idle stuff system wide?

Richard.