[maemo-users] Battery Life

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On 8/16/07, Eero Tamminen <eero.tamminen at nokia.com> wrote:
>
> Applications should stop all visual activity and updates when they are
> not visible.  This is voluntarily, as it naturally depends on the actual
> use-case e.g. all Nokia apps do this except for media player and iradio
> applet which play music also backgrounded.  If you notice that some 3rd
> party app has activity although you're not using it and/or it's not
> visible nor there's no other good reason for it to be active, file a bug
> against it.

Given the importance of this to battery life, it would be cool if apps
were sent SIGSUSP when they were minimized or some the user stopped
interacting with them. If an application (e.g. media player) wanted to
override this behaviour, they could do so in their .desktop file,
.service file or osso_initialize() call.

Cheers,

Andrew

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