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

[From: Igor Stoppa]

On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 08:48 -0400, ext Brian Waite wrote:

[snip]

> So I have another request, Can we possibly have different profiles for 
> battery/powered? I think it is really important to be able to say if I am 
> plugged in do not go offline because I want to get my VOIP calls, but if I am 
> on battery do something more miserly. Again, we have the profiles already, I 
> would just like to be able to use different profies for different power 
> conditions.

We are shipting in the metaphisical field of centralised vs. distributed
control.

What you are asking for is certainly doable for a device meant to run
few well known applications, like a phone.

On a tablet it seems cleaner to just broadcast the plugged/unplugged
event and let the apps deal with it by themselves.

You are proposing something similar to screen timeout on a laptop, that
can be set separately depending on presence of external power.

-- 
Cheers, Igor

Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa at nokia.com>
(Nokia Multimedia - CP - OSSO / Helsinki, Finland)