Bug#381906: please add gnome-power-manager to laptop task

[Gustavo Franco <stratus@debian.org>]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mardi 08 août 2006 à 12:32 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit :
>> Josselin Mouette wrote:
>>> Most concerns are about the UI which needs improvement, but I think they
>>> are outweighed by the benefits now. Anyway, gnome-screensaver doesn't
>>> work correctly when gnome-power-manager isn't installed, thus I have
>>> made it a dependency of the "gnome" metapackage (unless xscreensaver is
>>> installed).
>> The gnome metapackage isn't used by tasksel. Does gnome-screensaver need
>> gnome-power-manager installed even on non laptop machines?
> 
> It isn't needed per se, but it's definitely better, as gnome-screensaver
> alone won't handle DPMS stuff. IMHO, the default setup should install
> either g-screensaver and g-power-manager, or xscreensaver alone.

I think the best would be use g-screensaver (implementing #367682, something i
could do, but i don't have enough time now) and g-power-manager then.

thanks,
-- stratus