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List:       freedesktop-ohm-devel
Subject:    Re: [ohm] OHM vs. PPM
From:       Holger Macht <holger () homac ! de>
Date:       2008-05-03 12:52:14
Message-ID: 20080503125213.GB6468 () homac
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On Sa 03. Mai - 15:28:44, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Holger Macht <holger@homac.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Sa 03. Mai - 14:35:48, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> >  > I also wonder if OHM could offer a library that gnome-settings-daemon
> >  > could use to make session policy decisions (instead of having a
> >  > per-session ohm daemon)
> >
> >  I'm not sure about which systems you're talking here, but if it's usual
> >  laptop/desktop systems, could you explain whats the advantage of having
> >  OHM in a session level against having gnome-power-manager?
> 
> 
> I am talking about "system" as in system-bus level in DBus (as
> explained here http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7744 and here
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/IntroductionToDBus).
> 
> I prefer to use desktop vs mobile (vs server) to differentiate
> different kind of computers and platform design. (oh crap, I hate
> terminology..)
> 
> For the OHM vs GNOME Power Manager, I'd rather let Richard explain
> since he wrote those two, certainly with different designs in mind.

Right, the initial approach for OHM was to be system level because it
should also handle multiple session issues. And I don't see how this can
work if OHM itself would be part of a desktop session. I just wonder where
the request making OHM per session actually came from...

Thanks,
	Holger
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