Re: Trying to reach consensus for the proposed modules

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 23:19 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 23:00 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
> 
> >  + gnome-power-manager: I don't remember much discussion. What do you
> > think? Is it well-tested?
> 
> Ubuntu has been shipping this for a while, first in Breezy then in
> Dapper; it works great for me (it enabled me to suspend my laptop by
> closing the lid) and makes the power management a non-issue.
> 
> >  + gnome-screensaver: people want this. I'd say we should go with it and
> > I believe it's the general consensus, but maybe some people think it's
> > not ready yet?
> 
> As above, gnome-screensaver works great.  It makes my laptop use too
> much power, so the fan goes like a 747 jet, but it's been a drop in
> replacement for xscreensaver for a while.

CVS g-p-m tells g-s to use a low-power version of the screensver (i.e.
blank the screen, don't do any openGL stuff) when on battery power.

Richard.