On 01.10.11 16:27:48, Dario Freddi wrote: > Hello all, and sorry for cross-posting. > > Me and Bjorn have been discussing extensively about how to improve the > current > situation with Power Management in KDE. We focused on simplicity, still > without losing power-user features. And we have a plan I'd like to share and > get some feedback on. > > The first, important part: we plan to remove the "Warning" step and the > possibility of creating profiles manually. The reason behind this choice will > be clearer later. So we will have just 3 static profiles: one for AC power, > one for the PC running on battery, one for the PC running on low battery. > > At the same time, the combobox for selecting a profile in the battery applet > will be removed. It will, although, be replaced by a toggle button for > inhibition: by enabling/disabling it, power management features regarding > screen suspension, notifications and screen power management will be > suspended. Technically speaking, the battery applet will trigger a full > inhibition on the power manager while this button is still on. > > And how do we cope with the users wanting to have very specific behavior in > certain situations? This is where activities kick in. We will allow to > configure a "profile" for each activity, if the user wants to, in two > different ways: action override and profile override. Let me expand. > > Suppose you want to have an activity named "Sleep", in which you watch a > movie, and the PC will shutdown after 90 mins of inactivity. In this case, > you > would just specify to override the "Suspend Session" action. Or, you want to > have an activity where you always want a profile which lets you run at full > speed. You can define a whole new profile for it. Bottom line: manual > profiles > become "activity profiles". > > Hopefully, this solution will please everyone and will make activities even > more useful. Do you like it? More suggestions? Speak now or shut up forever!
What happens if I don't use activities at all since they provide no use for me? And whats also not clear to me: How can I get powermanagement configured so it never dims down my screen brightness (since thats making the display useless for me) even on low battery? Can I still adjust what lid-down does in ac, no-ac and low-battery mode (the latter currently goes into suspend-to-disk as opposed to ram)? Can I still configure for each profile when it does the suspend? Can I still choose what "low battery" means? I agree though that 2 'low' levels are more or less useless, once the battery is reaching a very low level I just want the machine to do a suspend to disk. Andreas