The future of Power Management - together with Activities

[Lukas]

Hi,

On 1 October 2011 17:59, <plasma-devel-request at kde.org> wrote:

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> 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.
>

Something like having Power mode switch:

[Performance] [Normal] [Battery stretch]

where Normal is current static profile; Performance - temporary disables any
limitations; Battery stretch - disables everything, that can
be disabled [Wifi, audio, CPU turbo mode etc]



> And how do we cope with the users wanting to have very specific behavior in
> certain situations? This is where activities kick in. We will allow to
> configure a "profile" for each activity, if the user wants to, in two
> different ways: action override and profile override. Let me expand.
>

Sound awesome :)

I hope there would be a way to pin profile of other activity?

Say you have 10 profiles named "Project [project name]". To have same
profile for work activities user could just set "Use same profile as in
'Project default' ".

Its different from cloning settings then creating new activity, since any
changes on 'Project default' would be applied on all "Project [project
name]"

P.s. power profiles can define brightness, so if different activities has
different power profiles with brightness set up, there should be some kind
of scheme of preventing blinking screen when Meta+tab is used to toggle
profiles.
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