org.freedesktop.PowerManagement

[Danny Kukawka]

On Freitag, 30. März 2007, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 11:44 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > IMO it make no sense that KPowersave or any other powermanager on the
> > desktop are only proxies to the real shutdown method of the desktop.
>
> It really does. Just think about gnome-format taking a manual inhibit,
> and then starting to format a USB key.
>
> User clicks shutdown on the shortcut in the menu, and gets warned that
> doing so is probably a bad idea.
>
> You just can't do that without a smart proxy (with inhibits) that
> interfaces to the core desktop method.

Why not? The desktop can do the same if the desktop implement the interface.

Danny