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

[Simon Schampijer]

Ok, so I am still not clear on the whys. Why does the machine suspend 
when there is audio being played back? That sounds wrong to me. It would 
be the same as suspending why I am moving the mouse. Can someone provide 
some background information on this?

Regards,
    Simon



On 05/17/2012 08:08 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> 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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>> http://sascha.silbe.org/
>> http://www.infra-silbe.de/
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