Re: [gpm] Power Manager Upgrade

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 09:58 +0100, Alfredo Matos wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> >From my point of view, the new interface is a big improvement. It let's
> you customize all the power settings. I think that it should be
> available for the users to select how their laptop will behave.
> 
> What i see in David Zeuthen's email is another issue. Non power users
> just want a simple thing to fiddle width. The best compromise i can
> imagine is power profiles:
> 
> The user would have on the first tab, a list of profiles that set a
> default for all options:
> 
> - Maximize battery
> - Maximize performance
> - Balance battery and performance
> - Presentation
> - Custom
> 
> and so on.
> 
> All these profiles could be reached from the tray icon as well.

I'm not sure we want to go with the profiles system, all of this should
just work without the user selecting anything. Ideally, everybody would
be using ondemand, and then the defaults would work great for
everybody. :-)

Richard.