Day: March 27, 2007

Everybody who has reviewed and commented on the power-management specification – THANKS.
I've got a pre-release here which will become version 0.1 assuming nobody finds any glaring errors.

One thing that bothers me is that I can't seem to attach a DBUS path more than once, i.e. just change the interface rather than the interface and the path. I'm pretty sure this is a limitation of the glib bindings of DBUS, which may mean the paths will have to be scoped (/org/freedesktop/PowerManagement/Inhibit) for the spec as well as the interfaces. Urh.

I've also got a crack-infested version of the spec with all the crazy stuff put back in, like Inhibit and Statistics and that sort of thing. I've uploaded a copy here and would appreciate some initial feedback before I pester the XDG list again.

Cheers!

I've proposed the org.freedesktop.PowerManagement specification on XDG list a few days ago, and the feedback has been generally very good. I've renamed a few things, cut some stuff out and generally tried to make it as cross desktop as possible.

I've put the first version here for comments. This is NOT the 0.1 version, this is a pre-release sample.

The statistics, inhibit and UI interfaces that are already being used in g-p-m – please ignore for now. I want to get the base stuff standardized and then we can discuss new optional interfaces for any new functionality.

One thing I'm not sure about: Reboot vs. Restart. I favour the latter, but I'm not sure which is best. My spelling and grammar are also pretty rubbish, so I would appreciate some help on that as well.

Comments or flames, directed as usual to the blog. Thanks!