[Pm-utils] pm-utils on suse 10.2 and suspend2

[Richard Hughes]

On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 15:57 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> Right now, we have two policy-managers (i know of):
> gnome-power-manager
> and kpowersave. Kpowersave right now is simply broken (or "feature 
> incomplete") wrt. button and lid events. This is kind of embarassing,
> but nothing that shows the need for a redesign, we just need to fix
> the bug / implement the functions, and this will happen soon (and then
> be available as an update for openSUSE 10.2).

Will the new kpowersave implement some of the session based DBUS stuff
similar like we do in gnome-power-manager? If it is, I would like the
kpowersave guys to look over my spec interface and see how much of it
looks good for them. I would love some of this (stripped down version)
to become some sort of cross desktop org.freedesktop.PowerManagement
interface but it might be too GNOME specific and need to be made more
general.

Cool new session stuff for me is the inhibit thing for auto-sleep, and
session based sleep notification for stuff like GAIM and NetworkManager
and integration with lockdown.
There's also stuff for the brightness and UI so a trivial lightweight
front-end can be used with Sugar icons or Maemo widgets.

The proposed interface is here:
http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/gnome-power-manager/trunk/docs/dbus-interface.html

Please tell me about any naming funnies, or areas that don't look right.

Other suggestions welcome as well, thanks.

Richard.