Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (818 mails)

[Holger Macht <hmacht@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun 26. Oct - 11:53:44, 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.

Of course it should be mentioned in the release notes. So if,
hypothetically, the decision is to keep this setting, I will care about
having a corresponding section in the release notes.

> 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?

As Vincent already mentioned, gnome-power-manager has a D-Bus interface to
inhibit a suspend, kpowersave doesn't.

Actually it's a question about for whom is openSUSE designed for. If you
have the "common desktop user" as a target group, you could assume that he
just uses the default desktop applications. And all those could trigger a
suspend inhibition. If they don't, and it makes sense, it's a bug.

Regards,
        Holger
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