Re: [gpm] New stuff in CVS: graph legends

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 00:54 -0400, Andrew Duggan wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> 
> Richard Hughes wrote:
> > Guys,
> > 
> > I'm after comments/feedback on something new in CVS: graph legends.
> > 
> > Now when a power-save event happens you get a visual dot. It's very
> > scary to find out the difference between full load, and idle with a
> > dimmed LCD is 20W... Anyway, now g-p-m really is a useful tool to find
> > out how much effect a particular setting has.
> > 
> > Screenshot, as usual here:
> >
> > http://www.hughsie.com/applications/Coppermine/displayimage.php?album=9&pos=1
> >
> 
> I just built/packaged it from CVS so I don't need the screenshot. It's even 
> better in person :-) I like the graphs with the dots.

Cool, if you get any crashes or segfaults please shout.

> > And the second point. I'll soon release two versions, 2.14.1 and 2.15.0.
> > Have I missed anything from HEAD that should be back-ported?
> > 
> > Ohh, and GNOME Power Manager is a little over a year old:
> > 
> > 2005-03-21  Richard Hughes  <richard hughsie com>
> >         * Initial release of 0.0.2
> > 
> > So I think all this stuff is going well. Thanks to everyone for all the
> > help and support so far.
> 
> Congratulations, you've done a great job and accomplished a lot in that 
> short year. In addition to all that is in gpm itself, you've done a lot 
> with the gss integration and all of the hal changes that have been needed 
> to make it all work.  Plus, I should add that I also think the code itself 
> is pretty nice, it's very comprehensible.

Thanks! I've learnt a lot in the last year.

> You solved a very big problem for making a usable laptop environment for 
> Linux.  I really appreciate it.

Lets say it's getting there now... :-)

Thanks for your email.

Richard.