Bug 318461

Summary:	tell powerdevil when to jump, let it decide how high
Product:	[Plasma] ksmserver	Reporter:	Oliver Henshaw <oliver.henshaw>
Component:	lockscreen	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kde
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Bug Blocks:	189456, 266194, 271731, 294712, 309051, 315438

Description Oliver Henshaw 2013-04-16 16:48:34 UTC

ksmserver and powerdevil are closely intertwined. One possible way forward is for ksmserver to take ownership of the state of the session, notifying powerdevil (and applications?) when the session becomes idle after a timeout.  Ksmserver can also mark the session as idle when the screen is locked.

Powerdevil can then take certain actions (optionally after a further idle period).

Inhibitions would then block the session from being marked as idle rather than block powerdevil actions directly - in practice inhibitions only block idle actions and (optionally) lid-triggered actions in the current design. Lid handling would work differently inside ksmserver/powerdevil but should behave more or less the same as far as the user is concerned.

See related bugs for some bugs/features this might help us address. I'm fairly sure every feature and configuration option in powerdevil will still have the same behaviour/same meaning in the new design: they're shouldn't be any regressions from this.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2015-01-25 22:37:32 UTC

We have logind nowadays and make more and more use of it, especially when it comes to power management and lockscreen.