Posted Feb 3, 2011 14:55 UTC (Thu) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by __alex
Parent article: Quotes of the week
No, it's only a problem if your musicplayer DOES inhibit suspend. I don't want it to - I want my computer to act predictable and how I want it... So when I configured it to suspend when I close the lid, it should suspend. If I don't want it to do that I'll put it in a power management scheme which won't suspend the lid if I close it. I don't want apps meddling with that. Sure, a app should suspend screensaver or suspend when I am watching a video - but when I close the lid, the darn thing should OBVIOUSLY go into suspend...
The whole idea of building heuristics (which will always fail in many situations) for this is stupid, sorry. Good defaults - of course. Trying to out-smart the user in a way that will never fully work and then not allowing the user to fix it - braindead.