Re: DeviceKit-power can-suspend property

2010-01-19 Thread Martin Pitt
Martin Pitt [2010-01-19 11:26 +0100]: > g-p-m also has a gconf key for disabling suspend/hibernate. It's said > to not work ATM (I'll look at this soon [1]) > [1] https://launchpad.net/bugs/432598 Nevermind. Having read the bug report now, the assumption that those gconf keys still work was part o

Re: DeviceKit-power can-suspend property

2010-01-19 Thread Martin Pitt
Richard Hughes [2010-01-05 12:47 +]: > > 4) Use PolicyKit? > > Yes, I thought of using "no" as the policykit action result to mean > "don't even show in the menus" but this seemed a little too clever. Personally I like that better than having a new configuration file. g-p-m also has a gconf

Re: DeviceKit-power can-suspend property

2010-01-05 Thread Richard Hughes
2010/1/5 Krzysztof Kotlenga : >> 1) have a very small DeviceKit-power.conf file living in /etc? >> 2) have a udev property that people can write a rule for? >> 3) both? > > 4) Use PolicyKit? Yes, I thought of using "no" as the policykit action result to mean "don't even show in the menus" but this

Re: DeviceKit-power can-suspend property

2010-01-05 Thread Krzysztof Kotlenga
Richard Hughes wrote: > So, if I wanted to add a trivial override (to disable suspend) should > we: > > 1) have a very small DeviceKit-power.conf file living in /etc? > 2) have a udev property that people can write a rule for? > 3) both? 4) Use PolicyKit? -- A: Because it breaks the logical se

DeviceKit-power can-suspend property

2010-01-04 Thread Richard Hughes
DeviceKit-power has a can-suspend property, that GUI clients read and decide whether to show a suspend button. Session programs including gdm, gnome-session and gnome-power-manager already do this. If an admin wants to disable suspend system-wide (either becuase it does work, can't work, or is for