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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Patch: Idea for saving power on laptops
From:       jos poortvliet <jos () mijnkamer ! nl>
Date:       2007-05-19 9:34:59
Message-ID: 200705191135.03747.jos () mijnkamer ! nl
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Op Saturday 19 May 2007, schreef Florian Hackenberger:
> 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.

OK, I guess this was just very babylonian. OS =/ KDE, of course... :D

> > 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.

hey, that this isn't the 'proper' solution doesn't mean it's a bad idea. 
Having, expressing and exp providing a patch for an idea is always good. So 
good work, good idea, too bad it isn't the right solution!

> Cheers and thanks for all your comments!
> 	Florian



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