The future of Power Management - together with Activities

[Kevin Kofler]

Dario Freddi wrote:
> we plan to remove the "Warning" step

Uhm, wait a minute… Do you mean you will just suspend or shut down the 
machine with no warning whatsoever? If that's really what you mean, to me, 
this sounds incredibly rude and might lead to data loss – especially if 
"shut down" is the chosen option, but even suspending or hibernating can be 
fatal, e.g. for online games (and yes, there's now wireless Internet, 
whereas wireless power has yet to be invented, at least one which works at a 
distance of more than a couple cm ;-) ), or if a kernel bug is breaking the 
suspending.

So far all the discussion has focused on the "activities" thing, but if you 
really mean what I think you mean, this issue is even more important. We 
MUST give the user a chance to save his/her work and/or to plug the power in 
before we trigger a shutdown or suspend.

        Kevin Kofler