Re: Beagle suspend while running on battery

["Kevin Kubasik" <kevin kubasik net>]

Lucky You! Joe just implemented this feature several days ago, and it
is now in CVS! Well, mostly. Live queries are still enabled, but you
do have the option to disable indexing.

http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/gnome/beagle/.message/55921

-Kevin Kubasik

On 7/19/06, Florian Hackenberger <f hackenberger chello at> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> As you probably know, a running beagled sometimes uses quite a lot of
> resources (most notably CPU power, but also hard drive reads/writes). I would
> really appreciate an interface (could be a command line tool) to temporarily
> put the beagled in a "power saving" mode, where searches are still
> functional, but it does not do anything which could also wait a few hours.
> Especially an idle CPU and an active hard drive uses a lot of power, which
> the user probably wants to save in exchange for disabled "live" queries and
> an outdated database. A little icon in beagle-search would be useful to
> notify the user that e.g. live query updates (when altering a file) are
> disabled.
>
> What do you think? Is this a useful feature? Shall I file  a bug/wish?
>
> Regards,
>         Florian
> --
> Florian Hackenberger
> student @
> University of Technology
> Graz, Austria
> florian hackenberger at
> www.hackenberger.at
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Kevin Kubasik
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