disappointment over default acpid config

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le lundi 07 novembre 2005 à 13:32 +0000, Richard Hughes a écrit :
> On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 10:20 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Le lundi 07 novembre 2005 à 09:04 +0000, Richard Hughes a écrit :
> > > On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 09:30 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > > > Le dimanche 06 novembre 2005 à 23:13 +0000, Richard Hughes a écrit :
> > > > 
> > > > > I'm not sure the "without X" argument is that important (flame retardant
> > > > > suit ON..) as the typical laptop isn't booting for very long. If we load
> > > > > a headless g-p-m when gdm loads, then we have 99.999% of the time
> > > > > covered.
> > > > 
> > > > Good power management is very important for set-top like HTPC boxes,
> > > > where you may have a GUI running but it's certainly not the Gnome one
> > > > (ie it's a desktop-less setup)
> > > > So you're cutting yourself from new market segments, not only old ones.
> > > 
> > > So you would be using gnome-power-manager and gnome-power-preferences on
> > > a set top box? Would you use NetworkManager also? STB's are a very
> > > specialised niche, not something that gnome-power-manager is focused on.
> > 
> > If you put all the "niches" you've decided to ignore together that's a
> > sizeable part of the market. Moreover this "niche" is very concerned
> > about power management, much more than your average desktop user,
> > because HTPCs are supposed to be always-on, at worst hibernating.
> 
> But do they run HAL, GNOME, glib, gconf and all the required deps for
> all of these?

They run HAL and X. The rest is HTPC-specific UI's (with big buttons so
it's useable on a TV with a remote)

> I don't see the parallel. 
> 
> I've not had one user of a HTPC wanting to use g-p-m (that I know about)
> as it's designed primarily for laptops and PC's.

Because g-p-m is unfit for HTPC maybe ? Which doesn't mean there isn't a
HUGE interest in power management among HTPC people. Go visit
http://htpcnews.com/ or http://silentpcreview.com/ if you don't believe
me. 

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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