On 21 September 2010 20:02, Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 9/21/2010 7:28 AM, Robin Burchell wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Excerpts from Arjan van de Ven's message of Tue Sep 21 17:20:34 +0300 >> 2010: >> >>> On 9/21/2010 6:42 AM, Kasi Viswanath wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> First, apologies if it is the not the right place for this question. I >>>> tried to put this question in the meego forums today but for some >>>> reason it didn't allow me to log-in even. Said access denied. >>>> >>>> My question was does MeeGo (specially for Handset) allow different >>>> modes of operation? >>>> >>>> There could be times when the user might only need essential features >>>> like Phone, SMS, Contacts and Alarm. This could be probably to save >>>> battery when he is on a budget. >>>> The idea here is to have a smart-phone (regular/default) mode and a >>>> basic-phone mode (only Phone, SMS, Contacts, Alarm and any other >>>> necessary/dependent processes). >>>> >>>> When the user opts for the basic-phone mode, the device should be >>>> running only modules/processes related to Phone, SMS, Contacts, Alarm, >>>> Cell Radio, Battery, Desktop, etc. If a process is not needed to run >>>> for any of the basic-mode specified features, that process should >>>> clearly not run at all. >>>> This probably (hoping) would result in battery saving and also faster >>>> response times for the specified features in that mode. >>>> >>> how is this different from the user just not starting any apps ? >>> the user already has the ability to not starting any apps and get this >>> behavior... >>> >> Well, not quite. >> >> As per: http://apidocs.meego.com/mtf/prestart.html - MTF applications at >> least can >> be prestarted, meaning they'll be running in the background with no UI >> present, >> without user intervention. >> > > that does not mean they actually consume power in any shape or form. Actually, I came up with that based on the behaviour of my N900 running maemo 5. Even when I don't run any app or widget, the device performs extremely slow at times. If the user has installed many apps and what if those are running in background? By going to basic-mode, may be such apps can be blocked from running. Stopping trackers (for example) from running would definitely save battery I guess. Thanks, @vkvraju > > _______________________________________________ > MeeGo-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev > -- http://www.vkvraju.com http://vkvraju.blogspot.com http://vkvraju.wordpress.com
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