Comment 40 for bug 638307

There is http://bugs.debian.org/614861 as well.

Laptop-mode-tools provides a very well maintained, configurable and supported solution for the laptop_mode. It also provides valuable diagnostic tools to identify the origins of disk activity.

How could a real integration of the system and desktop world look like, here?

A switch that determines if the laptop-mode tools settings or the settings of the active desktop session should have precedence?
(The pm-utils laptop_mode script used to check for l-m-t and let it take care, however, at the same time l-m-t package was patched to not be triggerd as designed.)

L-m-t using gconf settings, if available?

The desktop service to access l-m-t settings?