Re: Announcement: Common Power-Management Framework
On Fri, 02 Dec 2005, Kevin Locke wrote:
> What are your (or anyone else's) thoughts about the value of a daemon to
> invoke scripts based on the power-related HAL events? Is this
> unnecessary given the function of the GNOME Power Manager and
> equivalents, or would it have enough value to be worth implementing?
Things should just work. That means the system takes care of them all on
background, and GNOME/KDE just plug to those services to interface with the
user.
It is just not acceptable to have any system/infrastructure service where a
GUI (be it GNOME, KDE, Xaw, whatever) is more than a presentation layer that
can be removed and exchanged at will. This is such a basic design rule it
is not funny.
Since we're talking Linux, I'd add the golden sysadmin-approved design rule
that every system/infrastructure service should have a text-mode,
serial/ssh/screen-terminal-safe presentation layer in addition to any other
presentation layers.
> Would it be better to spend our time adding features to the Gnome Power
> Manager and equivalents instead of creating a separate program? I'm
To me things are simple:
1. power management is system infrastructure. I can explain WHY it
is so, but I don't think many people would argue that power
management is an user-level service.
2. thus, it has to work without a console, without X, without users
logged in, in embedded environments, etc.
3. therefore KDE and GNOME, as GUIs, must be kept as the presentation
layer only. And they must be 100% optional for the system to
be configured and operated.
> taken. We will probably need to address the issues of no users logged
> in and users with differing actions (where one would want to suspend and
> the other to ignore the event). But that should be doable.
May I suggest a priority chain? something like this:
(highest): - System-wide override
- logged users
(lowest) - System-wide default.
Make it configurable on how to resolve conflicts on the logged users
level: Either maximum level of powersaving, or minimum level.
Make the system-wide override capable of declaring which power states
are allowed.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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