[maemo-developers] suspendprocess - poor man's power save

[From: Robin Burchell]

Hi,

Excerpts from Ville M. Vainio's message of Sun Sep 19 09:27:43 +0100 2010:
> 2) Perhaps this would be even more useful to keep multitasking memory
> usage at bay - by suspending the processes not in foreground (by their
> own volition of course)?

I started writing a reply to this ages ago, but time kind of sapped it up and so
I never finished.

Anyway: this was pretty much in keeping with my idea: move it into the task
switcher (hildon-desktop/other) so that applications which are moved to
background are stopped (unless they signal for whatever reason that they
need to be kept running, but I'm not even sure that is necessary: if
you really need to do background processing constantly, why do it in a
GUI application?)

This might raise minor inconvenience for application developers that _do_
genuinely need to run something constantly, but it would make life a lot easier
for the end-user if it did provide a good boost for battery.

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Robin Burchell
http://rburchell.com