Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (818 mails)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le dimanche 26 octobre 2008, à 11:53 +0100, nordi a écrit :
> Vincent Untz wrote:
> > gnome-power-manager has some inhibit mechanisms. This means an
> > application can say "don't suspend" (eg, when you're burning a CD). And
> > the user can also control this with an applet.
>
> But if the user does not expect the system to shutdown he will not  
> change any settings and might be very annoyed the first time that  
> happens. So it should at least be mentionned in the release notes or,  
> even better, be switched off for openSuse, just as suggested in the bug  
> report.
>
> I also doubt that apache, gcc/make or $favoriteP2Pclient are capable of  
> telling Gnome to leave the computer running. Even if a application can  
> do that, can a KDE application tell Gnome, can a Gnome application tell  
> KDE to not shut down the system?

Yes, all apps can do that: it's just a dbus call.

I'm not saying this setting makes sense by default -- I changed it on my
computer ;-) I'm merely explaining how things could work.

Vincent

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