[Sugar-devel] [PATCH Sugar] Inhibit power suspend while playing text to speech - OLPC #11830

[Gonzalo Odiard]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Sascha Silbe <silbe at activitycentral.com>wrote:

> Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org> writes:
>
> > Using  powerd-inhibit-suspend directory is how ALL the activities are
> > working today,
>
> Quantity isn't the same as quality. That everybody is doing it doesn't
> make it suddenly a good idea. Quite the contrary, as platform developers
> we have the responsibility to take the lead and show what _best_ (not
> common) practice is. Activity authors can then adopt it.
>
>
But implementing such solution probably should be a feature and will not be
accepted at this time.


>
> > and how powerd is used.
>
> That's exactly what I don't like: it's specific to powerd. That's fine
> for downstreams to decide for themselves and use your patch (Dextrose
> may be interested in it, for example), but it's not a good direction for
> upstream to take.
>
>
That is a complete nonsense to me. Probably Dextrose will accept it, and
OLPC too.
In what _real_ users you think when you work?
Do you prefer have a bug who affect to 90% percent of our users without fix,
because your imaginary users may be don't have powerd? And think one
solution can be:

*"Brand-new D-Bus API*
*  If we go this route, we should involve other desktop projects (Gnome,
  KDE, etc.) to agree on an API that all of us can use."*

Wake up! This is not a university project. There are real users, and we
should work for them.

Gonzalo


> Sascha
>
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Gonzalo Odiard
SugarLabs Argentina
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