org.freedesktop.PowerManagement

Oswald Buddenhagen ossi at kde.org
Thu Mar 22 04:39:56 PDT 2007


On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:34:36PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> [...] I submit that it is the right thing that these policy managers
> needs to handle cases where the operation they want to do (shutdown,
> suspend, hibernate etc.) is either not available (no privilege) or
> fails. [...]
> 
> Does it make more sense now?
> 
i tend to think that you are completely right.

for the api proposal that means that a positive fooAllowed return means
"if you jump through three burning hoops and make a hand stand, you
*might* be able to hibernate", but in the end i think this is perfectly
ok. :-)

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