DPMS and automatic sleep inhibit API

[PCMan]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Ali Abdallah <aliov at xfce.org> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
>    So now that org.freedesktop.PowerManagement spec that was written by
> Richard
> Hugsie is dropped for whatever reasons, this drops its inhibit interface
> as well,
> so applications whishing to prevent automatic sleep cannot anymore do
> that in a desktop neutral way.

Can anyone please explains why this useful stuff is dropped?