There's something seriously wrong with the current design of g-p-m, yes. I have it set to suspend-to-disk my laptop when I hit the power button. I noticed when I'm not logged in, at the GDM login screen, it doesn't work. This is silly. Also, me and my wife share the laptop using GDM's flexible servers. What happens when two people are logged in? Three? Who's policy should be followed? Who gets to enforce policy? What needs to happen is a setup much like NetworkManager, there needs to be a PowerManager daemon that talks to HAL and carries out policy, and has nothing to do with X or Gnome. gnome-power-manager seems to be muddling three things: 1) configuring policy 2) carrying out policy 3) providing misc UI Number 1 should be handled by a system-config-power applet. Power management is screaming system-wide to me. Per-user seems ugly and wrong. I see little reason to have per-user configuration. (I guess this is mostly what gnome-power-preferences is currently doing?) Number 2 should be handled by a PowerManager daemon. Or hell, maybe just merge it all into the next generation init. (I already bitched about this earlier, and pm-scripts seems to be turning into yet another re-invention of what init/initscripts should be doing) Number 3 needs to just get blended into gnome. GUI options to suspend and hibernate should just be put right next to where you see "shut down" and "restart". And there's already a bazillion and one battery status applets. (Though I suppose g-p-m talks to HAL exclusively? Its also fairly pretty. Does it need to be a notification area applet? Once the policy enaction is torn out, can't it be made a native gnome applet? Let the KDE guys write their own HAL based battery applet.) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
