FS#10518 - Patch for Hibernate/Suspend logout dialog for XFCE

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 05:14 GMT
Last edited by Greg (dolby) - Tuesday, 17 June 2008, 22:27 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Kieslich (tobias)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

XFCE on Arch currently has very little in the way of support for suspend/hibernation. Ubuntu and several other distros use a patch that makes the logout screen show suspend and hibernate options; IMHO this patch would make XFCE significantly less annoying to use on laptops.

Granted, I'm not sure how the patch fits with Arch's KISS philosophy; but I, for one, don't see anything overcomplicated or gratuitously hacky about it.
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Closed by  Greg (dolby)
Tuesday, 17 June 2008, 22:27 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 06:35 GMT
Do you have screenshots available for before and after applying the patch? I've seen what Ubuntu does to the GNOME logout dialog and I'm not amused with that. I don't know what they did to the xfce dialog this time though.
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 07:32 GMT
Also you didnt even attach the patch. Please file a report upstream.
Comment by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 16:49 GMT
Without:

http://beranger.org/blogo10/xfce19.gif

With:

http://beranger.org/blogo10/xubuntu21.gif

Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 22:11 GMT
Hmm, the patch is in the xfce4-session ubuntu package. The patch itself is huge: it adds the buttons, adds some preferences to the config file, adds several widgets to the configuration program to make these settings, and additionally hooks into dbus to check various things. I don't think it's wise to apply such a big unmaintainable patch to our xfce4-session package.
Comment by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 22:48 GMT
Agreed, to big. I'd rather encourage people to setup acpi handler for closing the lid or pushing the power button. Which is way cooler anyway IMHO.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 06:33 GMT
Applications like gnome-power-manager also work in XFCE, so when there's a real need for a suspend/hibernate button, people can use that piece of software.

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