The future of Power Management - together with Activities

[Marco Martin]

On Saturday 01 October 2011, Dario Freddi wrote:
> > 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.
> 

and not that now covers everything, so shouldn't particularly be a regression

> > 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.

I think that's a big +1 from here ;)

Cheers,
Marco Martin