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

[Richard Hughes]

On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 17:06 +0100, Holger Macht wrote:
> On Mon 08. Jan - 15:56:33, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I remember that we already had a small discussion about some parts of that
> interface ;-)

:-)

> Until now kpowersave doesn't do this yet, but I hope it will in future. 

Cool. I'm happy to change method names or other stuff if it makes
cross-desktop sense.

> > 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.
> 
> I'm defintely an advocate for doing common, cross-desktop things. So we
> will surely come up to you with some suggestions/ commitments/ whatever in
> the near future. Stay tuned.

Brilliant, thanks.

Richard.