severity 372295 wishlist tags 372295 -wontfix thanks martin f krafft schrieb: > also sprach Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.06.09.1332 +0200]: >> Never got a complaint because of this. Seems people are expecting that >> the computer simply shuts down on pressing the power button. > > It's not what other operating systems do. > >> If you don't like this behaviour you could disable it by editing >> /etc/powersave/events and setting >> EVENT_BUTTON_POWER="ignore" but this is probably not what you want. > > No. IMHO, it should be the default. If you want it, you can always > enable it. > >> If you look a /usr/lib/powersave/scripts/wm_shutdown you will see >> that powersaved already tries to gracefully terminate and save the >> running session and not simply kill all running processes, e.g. >> the dcop ksmserver call in kde_shutdown() signals all KDE >> applications to save and exit. Unfortunately Linux has some many >> different desktop environments and window managers that it will be >> impossible to support them all. > > So then how about just not shutting down if you don't know how to > handle the environment? > >> Still I'm reluctant to disable this feature because it's what most >> users do expect. acpid btw. has the same behaviour >> (/etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh) and gnome-power-manager too. > > #285779 > > and I am cloning this bug against gnome-power-manager, although if > you use that, it's likely that you are using GNOME, and that it > already tries to be sane about it. > >> There was a nice discussion on the ubuntu-devel m-l about the same >> topic. It seems that the ubuntu-devs changed the behaviour and >> presented the logout dialog if the power button is pressed (so >> people could cancel the shutdown) but some didn't like it because >> it needed manual intervention others argued it is a little bit >> more cumbersome but safer. It will also be hard to support DEs >> besides KDE and Gnome. So you see it will be hard to please >> everyone. > > That's why we have debconf. :) > > (hint, hint)
I set the priority to wishlist as I don't consider this as an important bug. The reason why I don't want to use debconf at first place is, that imho the software should just work out of the box. It's better imho to provide sane defaults and give more experienced users the possibility to configure it to their liking. Also, the typical use case for powersaved/kpowersave is a laptop user running KDE. I won't discard the idea of using debconf but I'll have to think about it first because imo it complicates the maintenance of the package significantly without much gain. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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