The future of Power Management - together with Activities

[Dario Freddi]

2011/10/2 David Jarvie <djarvie at kde.org>:
> 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?

You did. I have stated countless times the applet has now an inhibit
button which triggers a full inhibit == like a presentation profile
but better.

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> David Jarvie.
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