On Saturday 01 October 2011 23:41:42 Anders Lund wrote: > On Lørdag den 1. oktober 2011, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > I don't understand how creating a new activity represents an improvement > > to the user. If I understand the proposal correctly the user will only > > use the power manager to change existing profiles and if they want to > > create an alternative profile they will have to us something that is not > > the power manager. > > I have a usecase that illustratess it: I created a power management profile > for using on my boat, where low power consumption goes with staying up as > long as possible. To accomplish that, I also created an activity which > have no networkdependent plasmoids or applications running (or anything > resourcehungry, except for relevant stuff) > > With the proposed system, they will be naturally paired, which is very > nice.
Thanks for explaining. You also remembered me that activities can also be used to save power, as you can pause apps/plasmoids (which are the real resource- hungry things). This is a nice side effect and another good reason towards using this approach. -- ------------------- Dario Freddi KDE Developer GPG Key Signature: 511A9A3B
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