On Saturday 01 October 2011 18:15:53 Lukas wrote: > Hi, > > On 1 October 2011 17:59, <plasma-devel-requ...@kde.org> wrote: > > Message: 5 > > > > > > At the same time, the combobox for selecting a profile in the battery > > applet > > will be removed. It will, although, be replaced by a toggle button for > > inhibition: by enabling/disabling it, power management features regarding > > screen suspension, notifications and screen power management will be > > suspended. Technically speaking, the battery applet will trigger a full > > inhibition on the power manager while this button is still on. > > Something like having Power mode switch: > > [Performance] [Normal] [Battery stretch] > > where Normal is current static profile; Performance - temporary disables > any limitations; Battery stretch - disables everything, that can > be disabled [Wifi, audio, CPU turbo mode etc]
This is actually why we thought about pairing profiles and activities. Although your concern is valid, you are likely to require this kind of things when doing a specific activity, hence you won't need the applet :) On the other hand, inhibition might be useful everywhere. > > > And how do we cope with the users wanting to have very specific behavior > > in certain situations? This is where activities kick in. We will allow > > to configure a "profile" for each activity, if the user wants to, in two > > different ways: action override and profile override. Let me expand. > > Sound awesome :) > > I hope there would be a way to pin profile of other activity? > > Say you have 10 profiles named "Project [project name]". To have same > profile for work activities user could just set "Use same profile as in > 'Project default' ". > > Its different from cloning settings then creating new activity, since any > changes on 'Project default' would be applied on all "Project [project > name]" Good idea. Will try and do that. > > P.s. power profiles can define brightness, so if different activities has > different power profiles with brightness set up, there should be some kind > of scheme of preventing blinking screen when Meta+tab is used to toggle > profiles. Good point as well, thanks. Will take care of it, probably by delaying the switch of 1s. -- ------------------- Dario Freddi KDE Developer GPG Key Signature: 511A9A3B
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