On 01.10.11 23:02:40, Dario Freddi wrote: > On Saturday 01 October 2011 21:03:10 Andreas Pakulat wrote: > > What happens if I don't use activities at all since they provide no use > > for me? And whats also not clear to me: How can I get powermanagement > > configured so it never dims down my screen brightness (since thats > > making the display useless for me) even on low battery? Can I still > > adjust what lid-down does in ac, no-ac and low-battery mode (the latter > > currently goes into suspend-to-disk as opposed to ram)? Can I still > > configure for each profile when it does the suspend? Can I still choose > > what "low battery" means? > > > > I agree though that 2 'low' levels are more or less useless, once the > > battery is reaching a very low level I just want the machine to do a > > suspend to disk. > > *facepalm* > > Let's try to answer this concern once at all: the possibility of editing > profiles will NOT be thrown away. To make it easier, here's how the new > config > UI will work. Take a new KDE installation, open the profile configuration > dialog, and forget about the actions at the bottom of the list (new profile, > delete profile, etc.). That's pretty much how the UI will look like: you will > have 3 profiles, one for each state (AC, Battery, Low Battery) you can > configure to your purposes.
:) It wasn't really clear when I read your mail, so thought I'd better ask - only to find out that others already did. Sorry if I caused you another headache. > In addition, you have a separate section where you can override some settings > based on which activity you are in. It's exactly like it is now, except you > can not MANUALLY change the profile (e.g. by using the applet) Hmm, that means I have to learn about activities if I ever want to watch a movie while I'm without ac... I don't really like that, especially since I only do this seldomly and I don't use activities otherwise and hence always have to check again how this worked. Andreas