The future of Power Management - together with Activities

[Jeremy Whiting]

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Dario Freddi <drf54321 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 01 October 2011 16:55:54 Marco Martin wrote:
>> On Saturday 01 October 2011, Dario Freddi wrote:
>> > Hello all, and sorry for cross-posting.
>> > 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.
>>
>> this i guess would be a kind of "presentation mode"...
>> would it still cover enough use cases?
>> maybe together with activities could be enough, not 100% sure
>
> Well, covering all use cases is something I don't feel I can guarantee for
> anything :D But we didn't manage to find something this paradigm wouldn't
> cover.
>
>>
>> > 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!
>>
>> yes, i like tying them to activities..
>> basically the profile config ui would stay, but save only activity-specific
>> settings?
>
> Not exactly. You can still configure profiles for battery states (namely:
> Performance, Powersave, Aggressive Powersave) as you were doing before, except
> now they are tied 1:1 with the battery state. In addition, you can define
> activity-specific behavior.
>

Your use of the word "activity" here is referring to plasma
activities? Or Activity is just the name of user-defined power
profiles?

Jeremy

>>
>> Cheers,
>> Marco Martin
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