heads up about f18+ and lid/power buttons

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 16:11:32 +0200
Raphael Groner <raphgro at web.de> wrote:

> 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

I'm not sure I follow here... acpid isn't a solution really. 

> 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.

Sure. I agree. 

We just need xfce4-power-manager to handle this... which needs code. ;) 

> IMHO There should be more love available for systemd support from the
> general non-Gnome developers site.

Also agreed. ;) 

kevin
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