On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Dario Freddi <drf54...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Saturday 01 October 2011 16:55:54 Marco Martin wrote: >> On Saturday 01 October 2011, Dario Freddi wrote: >> > Hello all, and sorry for cross-posting. >> > 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. >> >> this i guess would be a kind of "presentation mode"... >> would it still cover enough use cases? >> maybe together with activities could be enough, not 100% sure > > Well, covering all use cases is something I don't feel I can guarantee for > anything :D But we didn't manage to find something this paradigm wouldn't > cover. > >> >> > 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! >> >> yes, i like tying them to activities.. >> basically the profile config ui would stay, but save only activity-specific >> settings? > > Not exactly. You can still configure profiles for battery states (namely: > Performance, Powersave, Aggressive Powersave) as you were doing before, except > now they are tied 1:1 with the battery state. In addition, you can define > activity-specific behavior. >
Your use of the word "activity" here is referring to plasma activities? Or Activity is just the name of user-defined power profiles? Jeremy >> >> Cheers, >> Marco Martin > > -- > ------------------- > > Dario Freddi > KDE Developer > GPG Key Signature: 511A9A3B > _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel