On Thursday 16 February 2012 17:42:49 Ilya Chernykh wrote:
> On Thursday 16 February 2012 20:27:19 Serghei Amelian wrote:
> > > > I think the patch is a mess, because qtcreator made automatically
> > > > some cleanup in source file. Howewer, upower code is embraced between
> > > > "#ifdef WITH_UPOWER" directives.
> > >
> > > Also I wonder whether the patch affects all KDE places where one can
> > > shutdown the computer or only the shutdown dialog. I.e. whether it
> > > would work for hibernating from a menu such as kickoff.
> >
> > Right now is implemented only on ksmserver. Calvin propose to make a dcop
> > interface to it, and in this case will be accesibile everywhere.
>
> Currently kickoff detects well if kpowersave is running. I thought you
> patched kpowersave to work through upower instead of hal. Would not it be a
> better solution?
>
> Previously it used its own daemon, then it was ported to hal, why not to
> port it to upower? Hybernate/suspend dialog circumventing kpowersave is not
> good I think.

Actually I start to develop a replacement for kpowersave, but is not so simple 
to migrate everything from hal to upower. For example, upower do not offer 
any method to query/set CPU governors. We need to implement our own server as 
a wrapper over cpufreq (maybe named ucpufreq).

Now I consider to create something like ksmserver, which will handle all 
things related to power, and will expose a DCOP API to user applications.

-- 
Serghei.