disappointment over default acpid config

[Rahul Sundaram]

Pekka Savola wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Richard Hughes wrote:
>
>> I've not had one user of a HTPC wanting to use g-p-m (that I know about)
>> as it's designed primarily for laptops and PC's.
>
>
> But that's the point.  Are we heading towards a situation where ACPI 
> power management would only be feasible for those folks which run Gnome?

g-p-m is obviously intended for GNOME but would work on other desktop 
enviroments. Underlying framework like hal, dbus etc can be used by any 
other desktop environment to write their own frontends. a console only 
policy in plain C is possible too.

regards
Rahul