2.4 Proposed Modules - battfink

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

>   battfink - Energy saving and battery status utility.
>     Intended to replace the existing Battery Charge Monitor 
> in gnome-utils
> [5] 
>     because it is smaller and simpler.
>   http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/battfink/
>   http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/battfink/README

So, I tried this. It looks neat and suitably simple, and I think it belongs
in GNOME.

The existing Battery Charge Monitor is a panel applet. Instead, this is an
"Energy Saving" Control Panel and notification area icon. It has less visual
options - you don't need them.

Everyone with a laptop should try this to check that it can do everything
that the existing Battery Charge Monitor can do. There shouldn't be any
regressions. Suspend has never worked on my laptop so I can't test that
myself.

Also, I have some questions:

- The new Energy Saving control panel lets me choose a standby time, when
xscreensaver should start. Is this the same setting (gconf?) as used by
RedHat's (?) Screensaver control panel (xscreensaver-demo -crapplet). In
battfink's control panel seems to be a copy of the Advanced/Display Power
Mangement part there, so I guess you've thought about it.

- The old Battery Charge Monitor has a "Suspend command" preference, that's
empty by default. Does this mean that it doesn't really do suspend and sleep
stuff at all?

Murray Cumming
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