Comment 33 for bug 223812

Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
>>> Also, I think the gnome-power-manager package should be changed to
>>> default to "nothing" instead, because then, it would still be OK to
>>> install after powernowd, [...]
>> I think that could be an option. But this way g-p-m would do nothing
>> even if powernowd is not installed.
>
> Only by default; it could still be changed in gconf, which is how it
> should be. It's academic anyway, since powernowd is part of the base
> system install, rather than some optional add-on.

I agree.

>> Reviewing the postrm/-inst scripts I think it might not be at all
>> necessary to test for the presence of g-p-m. [...]
>> What HAS to be installed for this to work is gconftool-2.
>
> Again, this does not account for the case where gconftool-2 is installed
> after powernowd.

Agreed, too.

I'd like somebody with some more experience to have a look at this. Also
g-p-m is flawed in a way that the settings of the last logged on user
wins. This might not be desirable on a multi-user-system.

So there are several options:

1) disable all power management in g-p-m.
2) disable power management in g-p-m by default, but let users change it.
3) disable power management in g-p-m only when powernowd is installed,
which is tricky to implement because of install order.

 affects ubuntu/gnome-power-manager