[maemo-developers] Assuring quality in extras (was Re: Beware)

[From: Michael Flaig]

On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 08:41 -0600, Frank Banul wrote:
> What about making the system able to help the user identify the
> problem? In your specific example, consider battery usage. I think it
> would be very beneficial if the tablet by default could show usage
> history as well as battery charge over time. When the user charges
> their dead tablet, they can look at the history of usage and find out
> that it was that new whiz bang extras program that consumed 80% of the
> last battery charge.

I think this is a great idea! Some of the code may already be there.
Gnome has this power manager which can show the battery usage quite
nicely in a graph - may be adoptable.

The benefit of this would be that the user can decide if (s)he wants the
feature X or not. Not just to locate programs that use a lot of juice -
but to sort out programs to not leave running on background while on
battery just because you can - for example...

Cheers,

Mike

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Michael Flaig <mflaig at pro-linux.de>
PROLinux.de
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