heads up about f18+ and lid/power buttons

[Raphael Groner]

Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 09:20:17 -0200
From: Sergio <secipolla at gmail.com>
To: xfce at lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Re: heads up about f18+ and lid/power buttons
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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/