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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] Turn Powerdevil suspend notification into a dialog
From:       Aurélien Gâteau <aurelien.gateau () canonical ! com>
Date:       2009-09-23 21:08:37
Message-ID: 4ABA8E55.2040008 () canonical ! com
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Aaron J. Seigo a écrit :

> let me offer an alternate explanation: the patch was created by a member \
> of a  team (Ayatana) that has removed the current mechanism of providing \
> user  interaction during system initiated suspension. specifically, they \
> removed  actions from notifications and now have a non-interuptable \
> notification that  happily counts down to oblivion. their solution is to \
> turn it into a dialog.  
> so they post a patch. they don't mention that this is suddenly an issue \
> for  them because they've neutered their notification UI in terms of user \
>  interaction. we get this sprawling discussion where people assume that \
> the  patch was made because there was an existing problem when the truth \
> is that  the problem is completely self-contrived.

Sure I did not mention it in the first mail, but I at least tried to fix
it later (did you miss this one?)

Quoting myself (how weird):

"""
To be completely honest, it is also a bigger problem for us (yet again)
because of the possibility to use notify-osd together with KDE on
Kubuntu. Still I believe this Powerdevil change makes sense even for
upstream KDE.
"""

Handy link:
 http://markmail.org/search/?q=kde-core-devel%20powerdevil#query:kde-core-de \
vel%20powerdevil%20from%3A%22Aur%C3%A9lien%20G%C3%A2teau%22+page:1+mid:qvvd2mevyrxzfv3n+state:results


Aurélien


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