org.freedesktop.PowerManagement

[Rodrigo Moya]

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 13:34 +0200, Holger Macht wrote:
> On Fri 30. Mar - 13:21:24, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 23:30 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 00:25 +0200, Holger Macht wrote:
> > > > People want to disable gnome power manager on usual desktop systems.
> > > 
> > > I would disagree with this quite strongly. g-p-m on a desktop loads
> > > hardly any modules at runtime (less CPU and memory use) but still
> > > controls DPMS and Inhibit control.
> > > 
> > > Lots of desktops suspend and hibernate. I've never told anyone to
> > > disable g-p-m on a desktop on a desktop...
> > > 
> > yeah, and in those that don't suspend or hibernate, you don't realise
> > it's there, since it hardly takes any resources and doesn't show any
> > icon on the screen.
> > 
> > So, apart from machines with very low resources, I can't think of a good
> > reason to want to uninstall g-p-m for a GNOME desktop. And the same goes
> > for kpowersave.
> 
> In this regard, g-p-m currently has a big advantage. It's very well
> integrated. I'm currently arguing for the KDE people. 
>
we still need to know KDE needs, so, what is not that well integrated in
kpowersave that might make people want to uninstall it while using kde?
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo at gnome-db.org>