On Sunday, October 02, 2011 08:37:58 PM Dario Freddi wrote: > On Sunday 02 October 2011 20:31:37 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > And that's now exactly the point: if you don't have any clue about what > > is happening your "I want to save power and not let the computer > > decide" might be much worse than what the computer would do. > > No matter how many times I will quote this bit, it will never be enough.
Most of the time, as you've said, manual adjustments to power management settings are to avoid having the computer try to save power, not to try and to a better job. The only time I think I can do a better job is when I actually turn hardware off (like bluetooth and wifi) that I know I'm not going to be using. To pick, what is for me a real life example, when I'm on an airplane, I know I don't want bluetooth, I (almost always) don't want wifi, the ethernet port could be powered down, etc. Most of these are things that power management doesn't current deal with, but I could envision (sort of) a airplane mode activity that would shut these things off, but then I wonder about what I am doing on the airplane (what activity I am engaged in) and it could be almost anything: - watching a movie - coding - compiling - reading/writing email - writing other documents - etc So what does how I might want to save power relate to my activity? I still don't understand why having power management things moved from power management to this activity thing that I've never found a use for is going to help me. Make it possible to do whatever you want with activities, I think makes complete sense. Making it the only way to do it, I don't understand. The concepts are orthogonal. Scott K _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
