The future of Power Management - together with Activities

[todd rme]

On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 01 October 2011 16:27:48 Dario Freddi wrote:
>> Hello all, and sorry for cross-posting.
>>
>> 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!
> Hi all,
>
> I urge everyone to calm down about this subject. By now I think Dario and the other Solid hackers have explained quite
> good what they want to do and sorry to say so most comments on the thread are just triggered by being badly informed.
>
> I did not understand the idea from Dario's first mail either, but now I have got the idea and completely trust in the decision
> of the experts. I am reassured that the manual tweaking is still possible - and I personally only change screen brightness
> and turn off wifi to save power. Everything else is to do the opposite and there activities are a perfect solution. If I am in
> the activity "watching video" I do not want the screen to blank. Using activities for such advanced features is as good as
> using anything else.
>
> So please calmn down and lets focus on improving the user experience by not spending too much time on too long
> threads.
>
> Thanks all and keep hacking
> Martin

Maybe it might be useful if we had some mockups of what the activity
UI might look like.

-Todd