screensaver and power manager dbus interfaces

[William Jon McCann]

Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 14:09 +0200, Holger Macht wrote:
[snip]
>>How is this ment to be? Does it just a mirror the corresponding HAL
>>methods power_management.can_hibernate/suspend? If so, I think we don't
>>need it. Desktops will have a close connection to Hal anyway to query Hal
>>itself for this information IMHO.
> 
> 
> No. in g-p-m you can set a gconf key so that you can remove the shutdown
> (and other) options using sabayon or a manual lockdown by changing these
> keys. The session "CanSuspend" means is the user able to suspend (i.e.
> HAL is capable) and is the user *allowed* to suspend.
> 
> 
>>If the Can{Suspend,Hibernate} methods are not meant to state this, what I
>>think we need is something like...
>>
>>	AllowedSuspend and
>>	AllowedHibernate
>>
>>which is in plain policy context, which means that you are able to
>>disable/forbid suspend/hibernate from a system administrator point of
>>view.
> 
> 
> Yes, these are probably better names.

Maybe we should have used MaySuspend and MayHibernate ?  I'm not sure 
what the best English term for the concept (can && may) is.  Perhaps, 
able to?

We should probably return different errors for ProhibitedByMechanism and 
ProhibitedByPolicy or something.

Jon