[PATCH] Trigger an inhibition in ksmserver upon logout

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Saturday 14 February 2009 17:44:35 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 04:37:30PM +0100, Dario Freddi wrote:
> > On sabato 14 febbraio 2009 16:11:56 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > > powerdevil relying on being disabled in time implies that Other
> > > Session Managers have to do it too,
> >
> > True indeed. Though there is a freedesktop.org specification for
> > inhibition [...] we reach more Power managers without changing a
> > single line of code, and that's exactly what we want.
>
> i guess, it is indeed unlikely to encounter a power manager which does
> not implement the d-bus interface, so this is the smaller worry.
> encountering a session manager which does not think that treating power
> managers specially is his responsibility is much more likely, though.
> i'm not sure how much powerdevil is (going to be) used outside a kde
> environment and how much e.g. the xsm maintainers are purists, so the
> risk here is entirely unknown to me.

I think "powerdevil outside of a KDE desktop" is a non-issue. It's so deeply 
integrated into KDE that it doesn't make sense to use it somewhere else. (KDM, 
kded module, Plasma applet) I personally wouldn't spend time on making that 
possible, I just think it's not worth it as long as it implements the FDO 
powermanagement DBus interface.
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sebas

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