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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Patch: Idea for saving power on laptops
From:       Florian Hackenberger <f.hackenberger () chello ! at>
Date:       2007-05-19 8:29:56
Message-ID: 200705191029.57512.f.hackenberger () chello ! at
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On Saturday 19 May 2007, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> So, on the dead-wrong assumption that the OS doesn't know that an app is
> minimized, 
The OS, which is the kernel (according to Tanenbaum, some other authors 
include system management tools in the definition of an OS), certainly does 
not know whether an application is minimised. It just knows about processes, 
not even windows (X11 does that), so how could it know whether a window is 
minimised? If you insist on your point of view, please at least give an 
argument.

> and because you won't just bookmark a bunch of pages or even 
> kill -STOP an application, and basically insist on running your laptop 
> under the same load no matter if it's plugged it or not, you want to
> introduce yet another option to a menu which already has 9 (not counting
> the submenus), which can very easily be misused and lead to broken behavior
> (hello bug reports), which will be hard to document, hard to test and get
> right, just to save about 4% of battery life ?
It was just an idea, I do not insist on anything. I just wanted to share my 
idea and know whether people on the list would have an interest in it.

Since the overall mood about this feature does not seem positive, let's just 
forget about the idea and carry on.

Cheers and thanks for all your comments!
	Florian

-- 
Florian Hackenberger
student @
University of Technology
Graz, Austria
florian@hackenberger.at
www.hackenberger.at
 
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