On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 12:18 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote: > 2008/5/23 Trond Danielsen <trond.danielsen@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > I think this is a great thing because it makes my laptop behave as it > > should even if I am not currently logged in (suspend when battery is > > low, power management etc.). > > You shouldn't need a full "desktop environment" for that. It's been like this: It's only misinformed people who say there's a "full desktop environment" there. > Hey, let's make all these important things like managing wireless > connectivity be done on the user's desktop. > Hey, let's make all this stuff work in the login manager by pretending > someone's logged in. > > ... why not just make the stuff work without requiring > desktop-oriented tools to be running as part of a login session? > Suspending should be handled "behind the scenes". It's already behing the scenes. Just that the policy belongs in gnome-power-manager, which will show us a nice battery icon for us. Would you want to rewrite gnome-power-manager instead of using a cut down version? We also need a background wallpaper, and sound for accessibility reasons, as well as a keyboard layout switcher so we let gnome-settings-daemon handle those. There might be a few windows popping up, so we could rewrite a smaller window manager (which we'd need to debug, and fix separately, or we use metacity instead. It's not a full desktop environment, it's cut-down versions of the software in the desktop, and only carefully selected software is run. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
