Goals for next Xfce releases

[Benedikt Meurer]

Jani Monoses wrote:
>> >From my POV it'd be best to include the basic pm stuff in xfce4-session.
>> It isn't that much (IMHO) and that way the session manager can also take
>> care of everything on power shortage. We can use some stuff from g-p-m
>> here, and it would be good to agree on a common DBus interface.
> 
> For suspend/hibernate it makes sense to have it in the session (In 
> xubuntu xfce-session is pacthed to do that albeit talks to HAL directly 
> not g-p-m). But a lot of policy and corresponding GUI being in 
> xfce-session would mean much of g-p-m copy pasted or rewritten.
> g-p-m upstream is working on and I think it already has some proposed 
> DBUS API in the latest releases and has this in the NEWS file
>   - Add this new dbus interface so we can provide an alternate UI 
> environment,   for instance for XFCE or OLPC.
> So it is being though of at least, and it would make sense to 
> collaborate. As I proposed the degnoming patches to upstream and they 
> are being talked on the gnome-desktop list, I'll keep an eye towards 
> more reuse with the goal of having g-p-m in the next xubuntu if possible.
> Another thing is the g-p-m has no separare daemon yet like 
> network-manager but it's a gnome app running in the backround and 
> showing a tray icon. This is one reason AFAIK that KDE went and wrote 
> their own power manager from scratch.

Well if g-p-m can be improved to have no GNOME dependencies then it
would be an alternative.

> Jani

Benedikt