expanding the inhibit spec

[Ted Gould]

On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 17:38 -0500, Ryan Lortie wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014, at 16:00, Ted Gould wrote:
> > It seems to me that what is odd about that API is that it conflates two
> > different types of inhibition, one is application lifecycle and the
> > other system lifecycle.  I don't think it makes sense at a system level
> > to merge those two together because they're handled very differently in
> > different parts of the stack.
> 
> There is nothing here that is directed toward the 'app lifecycle' that
> you're talking about.  This is just an API for inhibiting system-level
> stuff (like 'logout', 'suspend', 'lock screen', etc).


It seems to me that "logout" is a special case of "don't kill me."  This
is because logout is basically just killing all the applications.

Ted
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