On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 19:17 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > (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
Totally agree with this part. > 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. Well, that's the tricky bit. Things like "should I have bluetooth on right now?" are really hard to do without a button somewhere. > 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?) Except they haven't; I've got to use a menu to turn things on and off on my phone. Likewise, it has a preferences menu for how long to wait before setting dimming (and later disabling) the screen. -- Peter _______________________________________________ Pm-utils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils
