Re: Weird downstream Power Manager changes?

2008-06-04 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dylan McCall wrote on 03/06/08 16:06: On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 16:33 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: ... Am Dienstag, den 03.06.2008, 07:21 -0700 schrieb Dylan McCall: Power Management Preferences has been needlessly crippled. The sliders to control

Re: Weird downstream Power Manager changes?

2008-06-03 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 03.06.2008, 07:21 -0700 schrieb Dylan McCall: Power Management Preferences has been needlessly crippled. The sliders to control when the computer sleeps and when the display sleeps all have a lower limit of 21 minutes. do you have gnome-screensaver installed ? thats no

Weird downstream Power Manager changes?

2008-06-03 Thread Dylan McCall
John Williams' blog post [1] about the horrible usability breakage in the Computer failed to suspend popup reminded me of some other downstream changes to GNOME Power Manager that appear, frankly, to have been done entirely as busy work and do absolutely nothing for usability. Power Management

Re: Weird downstream Power Manager changes?

2008-06-03 Thread Dylan McCall
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 16:33 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, Am Dienstag, den 03.06.2008, 07:21 -0700 schrieb Dylan McCall: Power Management Preferences has been needlessly crippled. The sliders to control when the computer sleeps and when the display sleeps all have a lower limit of 21

Re: Weird downstream Power Manager changes?

2008-06-03 Thread Dylan McCall
do you have gnome-screensaver installed ? thats no downstream patching thats the default behavior if gnome-screenasver has a 20min limit set we never touched that area of either gss or gpm. Hrm, could have sworn I saw that in vanilla GNOME. Thanks, Oliver. Good thing I didn't file a bug yet,

Re: Weird downstream Power Manager changes?

2008-06-03 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 03 juin 2008 à 08:06 -0700, Dylan McCall a écrit : Aha! Sorry about the double post. Just realized that the minimum is idle time + 1 minute, which probably makes sense somewhere. (Except for the 1 minute part?!). Still, the fact that this basic setting of timers needed research to