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GNOME Power Manager project gets underway

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-03-24 04:14. GNOME System Tools

GNOME Power Manager is a GNOME session daemon that acts as a policy agent on top of the Project Utopia stack, which includes the kernel, hotplug, udev, and HAL. GNOME Power Manager listens for HAL events and responds with user-configurable reactions. Currently it supports UPS's, laptop batteries and AC adaptors. Its goal is to be architecture neutral and free of polling and other hacks.

Linux power management on laptops sucks. Project Utopia is all about making things "Just Work" and that's how power-management should be.

The site can be found here with lots of screenshots.

There is a CVS repository available with the latest and greatest code.

Note: The project is at alpha status and at this stage I’m looking for preliminary feedback on initial concepts, and people’s views on how this should be done.

RE: Power Management?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2005-03-25 11:39.

Thats because of one of two reasons:

1. you forgot to write the code to make it better.
2. you don't have the ability to write the code and forgot that linux is free software.

Don't you just hate that kinda response? I do to, but really its true. We as Linux users have the right to complain to vendors who sell a linux distro that lacks these features. We do not have the write to complain about the lack of those features in linux itself.

The moral of the story is that you are preaching to the choir when you need to complain to the vendor. If you didn't pay for your distro, then you've lost that right as well. Thats what open source is all about. Its not about what can I get for free and damnit it better be exactly what I want :)

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