We started digging, and found out that the main reason for people wanting this feature was so that they could go from a table to another in the coffee shop, from their desk to the meeting room in the office, or a table to the next in the library, with the laptop lid closed, and your internet connection still on-going.
In that case, what's really needed is a way to disable suspending when you're moving the laptop. But having to dig in the settings would take too long anyway. And, apart from a number of tethered ones, users would live happily without that ability, so we wouldn't be adding this in the gnome-shell UI itself.
Let's add the button in a separate application. A single button isn't too interesting though. Let's make this more interesting!
Office Runner!
Testimonials
- “this is the best thing ever”
- “the most creative way I've heard of to solve a power management bug in a while”
- “I expect people to spill their coffees over this”
The code is available in GNOME git, and we're just waiting to knock a few TODO items, and get a UI review before releasing the first version. Patches welcome. Enjoy!
