On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 09:50 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 20:26 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > > I've digested most of your comments and come up with the attached - not > > in CVS - just for me playing around. > > I love the goal of this program and how it's going to eventually work, > but I feel the interface is too complex. > > When on mains, does anyone really care about the power saving features? > If I leave my laptop alone whilst on mains I don't have to worry about > the battery dying, and if I wanted it to sleep I'd shut the lid or press > Fn-F5.
Point. > Hard drive sleep should just be a check box, if it is visible at all. > Personally I think that when on mains it shouldn't spin down (drives > which are always on last longer), and when on battery it should spin > down after 5 minutes. Maybe make it a gconf value so that people can tweak if they want to... > Notice that Ubuntu Hoary does very nice things here: when it is on > batteries it puts the kernel into laptop mode, reduces the buffer flush > frequency, and tweaks a million other settings (I'm sure Matthew Garrett > can fill in the details). This results in my disk being used a lot > less, but I didn't have to set anything to make it work as I personally > don't care what the buffer flush frequency is. A valid point. Thanks for your comments, Richard. _______________________________________________ utopia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/utopia-list
