Call for testing: GNOME/KDE related power consumption tweaks

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen
<admin at leinir.dk> wrote:
> Monday 15 December 2008 skrev Mark Kretschmann:
>> My last tests with KDE trunk and PowerTOP (maybe one month ago, right
>> after the Phonon fixes) showed that Amarok generated almost no wakeups
>> when idle. When not idle the number of wakeups wasn't critical either.
>> Things looked surprisingly well in this regard.
>>
>> So I currently don't see any reason to worry.
>
>  i believe it was KRF who noticed that there's a LOT of redrawing going on in
> the progress bar - perhaps that's what they're seeing? :)

You're correct. He did mention that recently, but I had forgotten about it.

Something worth looking into!

-- 
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
www.kde.org - amarok.kde.org