The future of Power Management - together with Activities

[Andras Mantia]

On Sunday, October 02, 2011 20:31:11 Dario Freddi wrote:
> I don't think so. Every other system does a similar thing: there is no
> use in saving battery when you're on AC, when you are on battery
> these components are turned off. I don't think this should be
> configurable at all, and to a certain mean it is: you can always
> re-enable the service in the system tray with a single click. The
> user doesn't need to do anything at all here and can simply trust his
> system to do the right thing.


In this part we agree, that's why I said that with good defaults, 
configuration might not be needed.

> > > > What I said that I might manually need to switch to a different
> > > > profile independent of what the battery power *currently* is and
> > > > without switching my workflow/applications. Because I know in
> > > > advance (before the software can find this out from the battery
> > > > level dropping down) how much time I need the computer running.
> > > 
> > > But apparently you don't know what it takes to save power.
> > 
> > Do I have to really know? I just want to save power. And do that
> > whenever I want, not when the computer decides. Thats the whole
> > point.
> No offense meant, but this one made me laugh. If you don't know what
> it takes to save power, you should trust me when I say some things
> are not going to help you. 

Just like in the first case, this is about configurations, while both my 
and others mails were about two issues:
- chosing a preset configuration whenver you want
- creating presets

And here I talked about the first. The software might know better what is 
the best to save power, and I might know when it should save power. How 
it does (turning off brightness, setting kernel argument in /proc or 
whayever) is not relevant - that's why Is said should i really know?), 
from the user pov.

I hope this makes clear what I meant.

Andras