>I think the best way to handle the battery drain from constantly >monitoring the battery (that irony right?) is for us to handle it in >the configuration files. If application developer doesn't want to >monitor the battery level, and that is a pretty specific piece of >functionality, that they should remove the line from plugins.xml, >plist, etc.
... And so discussion turns back to plugins. :) That's predicated on the unified JS project and figuring out a (probably) package.json-based config/description file for plugins. Worth discussion in its own thread, I think.