Good idea, but be careful... Brian was suggesting "low resource mode" only when the card is removed.
I think the unspoken assumption by Brian was that when the card was reinserted the desktop would leave "low resource mode" - is that right, Brian? I think we're interested in firefox reducing resources for unviewed tabs at all times, not just when the user is away. Of course the question is what impact this would have on performance... Maybe we need a distinction between low resource mode (probably always a good idea on a shared server) and minimal resource mode (even more constrained, for use in temporarily-inactive sessions on shared servers). Does this make any sense? -Bob John Rice wrote: > Really like the presence ideas Brian for SunRay. > > Under your umbrella of "Gnome apps set to go into low resource mode" > I'd particulary like to see someone hack on Firefox to get it in this > low resource mode to only keep images in memory for the currently > visible tab, with 20 - 30 tabs open this can be a huge resource sink. > > JR > > To enable reduced resources mode, execute the following command: > > # *gconftool-2 --type bool --set > /apps/metacity/general/reduced_resources true* > > > Brian Nitz wrote: > >> I'll put it on the wiki, but fist I thought I'd ask for opinions on >> these ideas: >> >> 1) Provides GNOME desktop hooks which would allow sunray utactions >> (specifically java card removal) to do something useful such as: >> Tell GAIM instant messenger that you are away. >> Tell screensavers, stock tickers, clocks and other visually >> active applications to stop updating the screen for a while. >> Tell other GNOME applications to go into a low resource usage >> mode. >> >> This might also be useful for the Linux Desktop Terminal Project >> (LDTP) and other thin client projects, and possibly for power >> management. >> >> 2) Write a porting tool which would allow customizations of desktop >> files and gconf key to be migrated automatically to newer GNOME >> releases. >> >> 3) Make nautilus (gnome-vfs) understand zfs snapshots and rollbacks. >> >> Glynn Foster wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 19:18 +0100, Darren Kenny wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Another interesting project would be to get a Bluetooth stack up >>>> an running with the OpenSolaris kernel. This is something sadly >>>> lacking... >>>> >>>> Darren. >>>> >>> >>> >>> Agree, get wiki'ing. Add all the suggestions to that page and then we >>> can probably worry about mentoring people after that. >>> >>> >>> Glynn >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> desktop-discuss mailing list >>> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
