Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (242 mails)

[Stefan Seyfried <stefan.seyfried@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:19:54 +0100
"Bernhard M. Wiedemann" <susefactory@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Am 25.03.2010 10:09, schrieb Stefan Seyfried:
> > Policy is up to the desktop session, since years. Acpid is only used as
> > an events multiplexer, because the kernel hackers are too lazy to
> > implement multiple open for /proc/acpi/event ;-)
> >   
> I am usually using icewm or sometimes even a plain Linux text console,
> so there should be a way that does not need Gnome or KDE. After all, why
> not allow for system-wide defaults?

Because there is no infrastructure for it and it is a usability hell.
The decision to move all those policy decisions into the user session
are deliberate ones made years ago.

You can run g-p-m also in icewm. Or write your own policy agent, it is
not rocket science.
-- 
Stefan Seyfried

"Any ideas, John?"
"Well, surrounding them's out."
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