2011/10/2 Scott Kitterman <k...@kitterman.com>: > On Sunday, October 02, 2011 08:37:58 PM Dario Freddi wrote: >> On Sunday 02 October 2011 20:31:37 Martin Gräßlin wrote: >> > And that's now exactly the point: if you don't have any clue about what >> > is happening your "I want to save power and not let the computer >> > decide" might be much worse than what the computer would do. >> >> No matter how many times I will quote this bit, it will never be enough. > > Most of the time, as you've said, manual adjustments to power management > settings are to avoid having the computer try to save power, not to try and to > a better job. The only time I think I can do a better job is when I actually > turn hardware off (like bluetooth and wifi) that I know I'm not going to be > using. > > To pick, what is for me a real life example, when I'm on an airplane, I know I > don't want bluetooth, I (almost always) don't want wifi, the ethernet port > could be powered down, etc. Most of these are things that power management > doesn't current deal with, but I could envision (sort of) a airplane mode > activity that would shut these things off, but then I wonder about what I am > doing on the airplane (what activity I am engaged in) and it could be almost > anything: > > - watching a movie > - coding > - compiling > - reading/writing email > - writing other documents > - etc > > So what does how I might want to save power relate to my activity? I still > don't understand why having power management things moved from power > management to this activity thing that I've never found a use for is going to > help me. Make it possible to do whatever you want with activities, I think > makes complete sense. Making it the only way to do it, I don't understand. > The concepts are orthogonal.
I will reparse again a question nobody has answered yet: what´s the difference with creating a profile and an activity, if you REALLY think you need such a thing? > > Scott K > _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel