Crippling Gnome-power-manager, Why!
Jesse Keating
jkeating at j2solutions.net
Thu Feb 16 02:20:05 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 21:16 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
> I noticed that the power manager is starting to be pretty much a battery
> applet with a few less features. What is this crippling supposed to
> accomplish?
The only thing I see missing is the options to suspend or hibernate.
Suspend has moved to the system menu, and hibernate is gone I do believe
because it is quite broken on a lot of systems currently.
> A few days ago, I knew how to prevent closing the display lid on my
> laptop w/o having it go into suspend. today, I am at a loss to how to
> change my power management settings.
System -> Preferences -> More Preferences -> Power Management. Also
left or right click on gnome-power-manager and select Preferences. Same
app.
> I know that there were bug reports requesting removal of the options on
> computers that are presently incapable of successfully going into
> suspend or into hibernate. It does not seem rationale for settings to
> not be easily manageable as if the obstacles preventing those that have
> problems on their systems presently because of lack of resolution in the
> development arena are slower than would be expected.
>
> Removing the features seems like a move to styfle legitimate bug reports
> and hide a legitimate failure on the power management scene.
>
> I hope to see reversal of the degradation of the power manager to yet
> another battery charge indicator.
Again, the only thing I see gone is the suspend/hibernate options.
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