Share xfce4-session and xfce4-power-manager code

[Ali Abdallah]

On 02/16/2011 09:51 AM, Landry Breuil wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Nick Schermer<nickschermer at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Ali Abdallah<aliov at xfce.org>  wrote:
>>> On 02/15/2011 04:04 PM, Nick Schermer wrote:
>>>> So IMHO
>>>> the best solution would be:
>>>>
>>>> xfce4-session:
>>>> - Use org.xfce.Power.Manager
>>>> - Fallback to sudo if service failed (no permission) or is not
>>>> available (openbsd and people who haven't installed Xfpm).
>>> Fallback to sudo just for reboot/shutdown, no sudo suspend/hibernate methods
>>> are supported, do we plan to support these options via sudo ?
>> No no suspend/hibernate; but the goal it that it will continue to work
>> with openbsd and other systems that have no support for Xfpm (and can
>> thus ship without it).
> I've considered implementing the missing suspend/hibernate
> options for the sudo backend since a long time, that'll be the perfect occasion.

Is pm-utils available on openbsd and others ?

>>>>    - Possibly also quit if it has nothing to do.
>>> Okay, by the way, do we have a unique like functionality somewhere in xfce
>>> or glib/gtk ? i have something like that in xfpm, which acts more or less
>>> like libunique.
>> No, we don't.; GtkApplication appeared in gtk3 IIRC.
> libunique is pretty self-contained, only depends on
> gtk/glib/dbus-glib, and a very small library.
> Maybe it can be blessed as a 'regular dependency' of the core ?
Also a small object in libxfce4utils can do the job.

> Landry
Ali
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