The future of Power Management - together with Activities

[Anders Lund]

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