On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 07:08:24PM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > Well, to integrate with powersaved people are going to want to do: > > /usr/bin/powersave -e Powersave > and > /usr/bin/powersave -e Performance
I'm not quite sure why you'd want this - surely powersave should just catch an ac event change or button press or whatever? hal (and pm-utils) should just be providing generic notifications, not making policy decisions like "switch to low power". (I think several of the powersave "powersave" and "performance" distinctions are bogus - we can do better than that by figuring out what's actually needed rather than just having static configurations that mostly just serve to give the user more buttons to press, and "powersave" against "performance" just encourages the same sort of binary thinking that led us to the dire speedstep situation on Windows of "Oh look, my CPU goes really slowly now". Providing it doesn't cost us usability, we should *always* be saving power. And that requires us to learn from the embedded guys that have actually solved this problem properly - can you imagine how pissed off people would get if their PDA only had the same sort of functionality?) -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Pm-utils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils
