disappointment over default acpid config

[John DeDourek]

John DeDourek wrote:

>>> If g-p-m has decided to punt these no user cases as a design
>>> goal...then we need to make room for a no user solution and just as
>>> importantly g-p-m needs to provide a facility by which another daemon
>>> can transition control..or refuse to transition control. Don't
>>> half-ass support for some no user cases. Either make the general no
>>> user case part of the design or punt it completely and make room for a
>>> transition from a no user daemon to the per-user g-p-m. Half-assing it
>>> and only providing for "typical" no user situations is a mockery. You
>>> might be able to claim "typical" desktop situations now..but no user
>>> situations are going to be vastly more variable. Tying this into gdm
>>> specifically..would be an example of a half-ass approach.
> 
> 
> My laptop boots to command line.  I go into and out of X (using
> "startx" depending on whether I need an agile machine with minimum
> software running or a pretty desktop.
> 
> It is essential that power management run regardless of whether I
> am in the desktop or not.  Therefore I will use a non-Gnome solution
> for power control
> 
> Therefore it is essential that I be able to easily prevent the
> Gnome power management from interferring with my preferred power
> management, and that this be supported by the configureation
> of the Gnome power manager and that this be documented as part
> of the Fedora install procedure.
> 

I should have added that lack of this feature would be a "show-stopper"
for me for FC5 and would require that I move to another distribution.