The future of Power Management - together with Activities

[David Jarvie]

On Sunday 02 October 2011 18:47:19 Dario Freddi wrote:
> On Sunday 02 October 2011 19:34:42 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > That leaves out the use-case of not wanting to inhibit all aspects of
> > the current power-save mode, but only a part by switching to a different
> > mode that is similar but differs in one or two aspects. I can think for
> > example for powersave-for-movie mode that dims display (because the
> > movie is shown on a TV) but does not suspend to ram/disk or turn off
> > monitors. Requiring people to create an activity for that even if thats
> > the only one (besides the one they use all the time otherwise) is
> > a regression compared to the current state.
> 
> Starting from the fact that your video player (if it's a KDE one) is likely to 
> inhibit screen power management, hence making your concern invalid, thanks to 
> the new RandR integration, if you have an external display connected, you can 
> now simply close the lid: the screen will be blanked and the PC will not be 
> suspended. So we are already doing the right thing in this case.

Not everybody uses (or should be required to use) a KDE video player in order to make their system work in a reasonable way. I only occasionally watch videos, normally in a browser, and I don't see why I should have to find out how to create and use a special activity (I don't use activities at all so far) just because I can't manually select the presentation profile any more. I want to just click on a link in the browser I already have running, and select presentation mode, not restart the browser in another activity to view the video. Or perhaps I have misunderstood your proposal?

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David Jarvie.
KDE developer.
KAlarm author -- http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm