Thorsten Leemhuis (fedora(a)leemhuis.info) said:
That's okay for me. Are there any efforts in that direction
already?
gnome-power-manager perhaps?
BTW, managing whitelists and "lists with required workarounds for
certain laptops" really sounds like something to me that needs to be
handled somewhere "upstream" -- otherwise each distro would have to
manage its own lists and that wastes a lot of man-power without a real
benefit afaics...
There is pm-utils work going on to integrate these sorts of things
with HAL at freedesktop.org(?). I believe Richard Hughes has been leading
the work, with some help from Red Hat, Ubuntu, and SuSE people.
Bill