disappointment over default acpid config

[Richard Hughes]

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 09:30 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le dimanche 06 novembre 2005 à 23:13 +0000, Richard Hughes a écrit :
> 
> > I'm not sure the "without X" argument is that important (flame retardant
> > suit ON..) as the typical laptop isn't booting for very long. If we load
> > a headless g-p-m when gdm loads, then we have 99.999% of the time
> > covered.
> 
> Good power management is very important for set-top like HTPC boxes,
> where you may have a GUI running but it's certainly not the Gnome one
> (ie it's a desktop-less setup)
> So you're cutting yourself from new market segments, not only old ones.

So you would be using gnome-power-manager and gnome-power-preferences on
a set top box? Would you use NetworkManager also? STB's are a very
specialised niche, not something that gnome-power-manager is focused on.

There's nothing wrong with creating a stripped down g-p-m (to interact
with HAL) as an optional initscript. But I really don't think this is
required -- feel free to jump on the g-p-m m/l if you require this
functionality.

Richard.