On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 7:14 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
wrote:
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 01:59:08PM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> One thing that we should be pointed out here is that we've been
> auto-suspending for laptops on battery for years. So it's not like there
> was a sudden leap into untested territory - this is the way that many
> people experience Fedora. So I don't think the lack of inhibitors in
every
> possible app is a blocker. And if we can improve the case where
inhibition
> is longer than the suspend delay - that strikes me as much more of a
> positive step forward than toggling back the behavior on AC power.
We're going to get backlash if we don't communicate this well. I'm used
to making sure I'm plugged in if I have a long-running task to prevent
suspend. I don't think it's a big deal to adjust behavior* but we'll
definitely garner some annoyed and surprised users unhappy about
learing this the hard way if we're not careful.
Please note that the purpose of this thread is not to discuss auto-suspend
on by default (AC and battery). It's a big change, but might not be *that*
controversial, at least compared to autosuspend on by default + inhibitor
bug [1] described in my first post. I think that's the biggest issue here,
which I wanted to make sure is known and discussed by people in power
before Fedora 28 gets released. The combination of the new feature and that
bug has potential to bring us a lot of bad press, I think.
[1]
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=705942