[Kde-hardware-devel] inhibit suspend

[Kevin Ottens]

Le Thursday 02 October 2008, Sebastian Kügler a écrit :
> On Thursday 02 October 2008 15:43:41 you wrote:
> > > I'll seek to commit the inhibit feature to the battery later today.
> >
> > Excuse me, but what's the point of exposing that in the battery applet?
> > It's merely a service provided to applications, it's not supposed to be
> > triggered by the user.
>
> It is. Most applications don't support inhibit at this point, some never
> will. Think for example:
> - watching movies on youtube
> - presentations in openoffice
> - just leaving the computer for a bit
> - long compile jobs

I'm not sure I understand your point, do you mean that users are going to use 
the battery applet to type a message on why they don't want the box to suspend 
automatically? And then come back when they're done to disable the inhibition 
again?

If yes, I'm sorry but that looks like feature creep to me, and also giving the 
user the right tool to do bad stuff (like if the user forgets to disable it 
after having his daily fix of junk on youtube his box will go to critical 
level of the battery before suspending)...

I think that I'm really not in love with such a thing (at least in an such a 
proeminent applet of the default installation).

Regards.
-- 
Kévin 'ervin' Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net
"Ni le maître sans disciple, Ni le disciple sans maître,
Ne font reculer l'ignorance."
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