[maemo-developers] Internet Tablet Power Management presentation from linux-pm summit 2007

[From: David Weinehall]

On ons, 2007-07-11 at 13:53 +0100, ext Andrew Flegg wrote:
> On 7/11/07, David Weinehall <david.weinehall at nokia.com> wrote:
> > On ons, 2007-07-11 at 13:28 +0100, ext Andrew Flegg wrote:
> > >
> > > This being reraised made me think about why, the other day, I *did*
> > > want user suspend. Sometimes I just want a quick way to:
> > >
> > >   * Shut off all network connections.
> > >   * Stop any noise (except configured alarms)
> > >   * Have the screen locked
> > >   * Not have to save my position
> > >   * Be able to resume quickly
> > >
> > > This isn't "suspend" in a power sense, but in a use-case sense the
> > > purpose is clear.
> >
> > So what you want is basically the "Soft Poweroff" option that's
> > available [...] but with some minor tweaks?
> 
> Yes, exactly :-)
> 
> > I guess that can be arranged =)
> 
> Cool. Is it anything I could do straight off (I can also imagine a
> control panel applet to allow users to customise[1] this "suspended"
> state as Igor describes), or does it still dependent on some
> relatively closed/unhookable infrastructure?

systemui.xml (sorry, not conf as I wrote in my previous e-mail) file
supports callbacks, to get customised behaviour.

> [1] Sound on/off, network on/off being the obvious ones

I can make that configurable through /etc/mce/mce.ini


Regards: David