Hi, On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 22:23 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 23:19 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 23:00 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: > > > > > + gnome-power-manager: I don't remember much discussion. What do you > > > think? Is it well-tested? > > > > Ubuntu has been shipping this for a while, first in Breezy then in > > Dapper; it works great for me (it enabled me to suspend my laptop by > > closing the lid) and makes the power management a non-issue. > > > > > + gnome-screensaver: people want this. I'd say we should go with it and > > > I believe it's the general consensus, but maybe some people think it's > > > not ready yet? > > > > As above, gnome-screensaver works great. It makes my laptop use too > > much power, so the fan goes like a 747 jet, but it's been a drop in > > replacement for xscreensaver for a while. > > CVS g-p-m tells g-s to use a low-power version of the screensver (i.e. > blank the screen, don't do any openGL stuff) when on battery power.
That's great news - even though my CPU's fan goes over the sound barrier just with the photos screen saver. ;-) Anyway, nothing that I can't live with, since if I'm going away from the laptop for enough time to the screensaver to kick in, I usually close its lid and suspend. Ciao, Emmanuele. -- Emmanuele Bassi - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Log: http://log.emmanuelebassi.net _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
