expanding the inhibit spec

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 08.01.14 09:48, Ryan Lortie (desrt at desrt.ca) wrote:

> 
> hi,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014, at 6:28, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > Having implemented "delay logout until we've tried to disconnect IM
> > connections" in telepathy-mission-control, in terms of the logind API
> > (which only has Inhibit and PrepareToSleep), I'm not sure that a
> > separate Delay API is really needed.
> 
> As I mentioned before, I'm concerned that not everyone will be using
> logind.
> 
> That said, delay-before-suspend is sort of a separate thing from
> Inhibit, and I'm not sure I want to support it at all in the API I
> propose, so my concerns about "able to do all kinds of inhibit from one
> place" don't necessarily apply here.
> 
> This would still land us in a place that means that those who want to do
> tasks before suspend could only do it on logind systems.  I don't really
> consider that to be a substantial problem (particularly because
> non-logind systems may not even have this ability to begin with), but I
> guess it would be nice to have a more generic mechanism for that as
> well... one day...

So, let's turn this around: which operations precisely do you want to
cover here, and in which modes?

You only want blocking locks, and you want to cover
suspending/hibernation, and the screenlock, and ...?

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat