On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, James Cornell wrote: >> > Agreed, profiles aren't the best way. For now it's the easiest to > implement, but for the long-term I really like your idea about hooking > certain power-hungry programs to adjust the frequency, etc.
This sounds like a move toward's the Microsoft model where the application or OS is in charge rather than the user. Do you really want to move in the Microsoft direction? In my opinion the user should always be in charge. Quite often (and particular in Unix environments) software is left running which is not necessarily currently being used. If I leave StarOffice running (as I often do) and it happens to be in some presentation-oriented mode I would not want that to defeat power saving modes unless I told the system to do so. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
