Re: Trying to reach consensus for the proposed modules

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Hi,

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 22:23 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> 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.

That's great news - even though my CPU's fan goes over the sound barrier
just with the photos screen saver. ;-)

Anyway, nothing that I can't live with, since if I'm going away from the
laptop for enough time to the screensaver to kick in, I usually close
its lid and suspend.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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