Crippling Gnome-power-manager, Why!

[Jesse Keating]

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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