On Lørdag den 1. oktober 2011, 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!
I only ever created one manual profile, and I actually have an activity that goes with it. In al other cases, I do with the standard profiles. So to me your solution sounds fine. -- Anders
