[Kde-hardware-devel] inhibit suspend

[Sebastian Kügler]

Hi Dario,

I've played with the inhibit suspend feature last night. In fact, I've already 
implemented it in the battery applet. I think the implementation is wrong, 
though. The suspend should *only* be prevented when powerdevil's idle timer 
times out, i.e. inhibit only affects the suspend to save power, the machine 
going into suspend automatically after some minutes. In fact, the suspend on 
critical battery level should always ignore the inhibit. See it more like 
preventing an extreme screensaver from kicking in.

Invoking suspend 'by hand' still has to just work. In fact, if I click the 
suspend button in kickoff or the battery applet, the machine should release 
its cookies and just suspend, not prevent it -- that would annoy a lot of 
users.

There also seems to be a bug somewhere. When powerdevil is running, I don't 
seem to be able to suspend at all, I get the message "it's inhibited". The 
user should always just override this setting.

I'll seek to commit the inhibit feature to the battery later today.

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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