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* When the lid is closed, the computer must suspend | * When the lid is closed, the computer must suspend | ||
* When the user changes the brightness, he doesn't appreciate if the computer turns it right back down again | * Just because I have music playing, my laptop must not refuse to suspend when I ask it to | ||
* When the user changes the brightness, he doesn't appreciate if the computer turns it right back down again (or vice-versa up again) | |||
There | There are only a few situations where I can see not wanting to suspend on lid close: | ||
* when docked | |||
* when using an external display (watching a movie on a TV) | |||
* and, of course, when explicitly asked not to | |||
Other details: | |||
* The cursor should not blink (GTK+ has a cursor-blink-timeout setting for stopping any cursor blinking after a configurable time without user interaction) | |||
Idea pool: | |||
* http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/power/good_practices.html | |||
... | |||
Dreams: | |||
* Suspend to do a simultaneous (transparent) Hibernate (to cope with battery death). | |||
** Automatically wake up after 30 minutes on suspend and immediately power off the machine (leaving the hiberated image). | |||
* Laptops: waste no more power on "AC" than on battery... the "AC" can be coming from a battery bank and inverter | |||
* Try to work out a sensible protocol for when unneeded BT/WLAN/GPRS radios can be powered off (though this rubs ''against'' "just works" Bluetooth/Wifi association magic). | |||
Revision as of 01:28, 28 November 2008
Some of the basics are:
- When the lid is closed, the computer must suspend
- Just because I have music playing, my laptop must not refuse to suspend when I ask it to
- When the user changes the brightness, he doesn't appreciate if the computer turns it right back down again (or vice-versa up again)
There are only a few situations where I can see not wanting to suspend on lid close:
- when docked
- when using an external display (watching a movie on a TV)
- and, of course, when explicitly asked not to
Other details:
- The cursor should not blink (GTK+ has a cursor-blink-timeout setting for stopping any cursor blinking after a configurable time without user interaction)
Idea pool:
...
Dreams:
- Suspend to do a simultaneous (transparent) Hibernate (to cope with battery death).
- Automatically wake up after 30 minutes on suspend and immediately power off the machine (leaving the hiberated image).
- Laptops: waste no more power on "AC" than on battery... the "AC" can be coming from a battery bank and inverter
- Try to work out a sensible protocol for when unneeded BT/WLAN/GPRS radios can be powered off (though this rubs against "just works" Bluetooth/Wifi association magic).