Re: the future of GNOME Applets

[Gediminas Paulauskas <menesis chatsubo lt>]

On Tr, 2004-09-22 17:46+0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> 
> > On Mer, 2004-09-22 at 08:04, Murray Cumming wrote:
> >> Don't "Longer battery, less performance", and "Higher performance, less
> >> battery" options make more sense on the battery monitor applet?
> >
> > Power management occurs on non battery operated devices as well as
> > on machines
> 
> Can you provide any examles of this - at least examples where someone
> would want to change a default profile?

You might want to change power management/performance of your desktop
machine to save power or work more quietly, too, as well as notebook. I
think Windows allows to setup and change profiles for any computer (Control
Panel->Power Management IIRC).

> > where the battery applet cannot run due to BIOS or ACPI
> > flaws (eg Dell latitude 5000).
> 
> Maybe the battery applet should run, but show somehow that it is not fully
> working. Hopefully this would be unusual.

If your computer does not have a battery, it makes no sense to run battery
monitor.

menesis