Re: the future of GNOME Applets

[Chipzz <chipzz ULYSSIS Org>]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Gediminas Paulauskas wrote:

> From: Gediminas Paulauskas <menesis chatsubo lt>
> Subject: Re: the future of GNOME Applets
>
> On Tr, 2004-09-22 17:46+0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> >
> > > On Mer, 2004-09-22 at 08:04, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > >> Don't "Longer battery, less performance", and "Higher performance, less
> > >> battery" options make more sense on the battery monitor applet?
> > >
> > > Power management occurs on non battery operated devices as well as
> > > on machines
> >
> > Can you provide any examles of this - at least examples where someone
> > would want to change a default profile?
>
> You might want to change power management/performance of your desktop
> machine to save power or work more quietly, too, as well as notebook. I
> think Windows allows to setup and change profiles for any computer (Control
> Panel->Power Management IIRC).
>
> > > where the battery applet cannot run due to BIOS or ACPI
> > > flaws (eg Dell latitude 5000).
> >
> > Maybe the battery applet should run, but show somehow that it is not fully
> > working. Hopefully this would be unusual.
>
> If your computer does not have a battery, it makes no sense to run battery
> monitor.

What about a UPS?

kr,

Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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