org.freedesktop.PowerManagement

[Lubos Lunak]

On Friday 30 of March 2007, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 16:00 +0200, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > On Friday 30 of March 2007, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> >  Uhm ... g-p-m is that little process called gnome-power-manager for
> > which Exmap after GNOME startup claims 2MB of memory used solely by it?
> > Yeah, right, that's surely considered hardly any resources these days and
> > the ability to reboot is well worth it.
>
> Well, you could contribute to the discussion, or bash GNOME
> applications. g-p-m uses a lot of libraries, and loads only the gobjects
> for the hardware you have on your system. Try compiling without DPMS and
> see the memory reduction.

 That's not bashing, that's reality. I'm not going to recompile anything, 
because first of all that's a strange way of quitting something I don't need 
and second it's not going to help anyway (unless your DPMS implementation 
needs 1MB heap). KPowersave is not different, that's part of today's reality 
as well. There are good reasons not to run either of them.

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