Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 09:20:17 -0200
From: Sergio <secipolla(a)gmail.com>
To: xfce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Re: heads up about f18+ and lid/power buttons
Message-ID: <5083DA71.5030909(a)gmail.com>
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I know the people who are going to take care of this will define the
approach but nowadays (in Fedora 17) there is acpid that can take
care of these power related button presses.
It checks if gnome or xfce4 power-manager are running and if so it
disables itself.
Just reminding.
+1
That's exactly the point. By re-implementing such "features", not only
acpid gets a lot of redundancy, but also upower. And that means
unneeded bugs bugs bugs. Nice little approaches and related projects are
being killed with one single growing complex system component [*]. SCNR
For a desktop distribution, power management should be kept configurable
for the individual user, no matter what desktop environment she uses,
with a nice settings dialog, just like xfce4-power-manager does. XFPM
uses DBus to call the power functionalities and it doesn't matter what
backend is there to implement those power functions, e.g.
consolekit/upower or (some part of) systemd.
IMHO There should be more love available for systemd support from the
general non-Gnome developers site.
-R.
[*]
http://lwn.net/Articles/447932/