Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (818 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <carlos.e.r@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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nordi wrote:
> 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.

Absolutely. I was quite "disturbed", and I'd be very annoyed if it
weren't factory.

> 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?

Absolutely.

This thing needs a module in Yast.

A module where root defines the overall policy for the entire system:

 - allow/disallow users to manually hibernate
 - allow/disallow users to automatically hibernate when iddle
 - force machine to automatically hibernate when iddle
 - change policy depending on the hour: for example, if the machine is
iddle after hours, allow/force hibernate it.
 - define admisible idling period

As it is now, it is more a damm nuisance than a feature :-/

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Cheers / Saludos,

                Carlos E. R.
                (from 11.1-factory)
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