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GNOME Power Manager project gets underway

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

Makes me cry

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2005-04-01 02:43.

why can't this stuff just be in the kernel, rather than requiring a 'stack' of four or five different processes with fancy/stupid names, and then only work when Gnome is running. I detest gconf, are you guys serious about mandating this crap (worse than the windows registry) even _outside_ of Gnome. I used to think that 'this year, Linux will be ready for the desktop', now I see that we are actually moving _away_ from the target, due to all the design-patterns reading college dropouts with no real programming experience overdesigning the whole thing, adding layer upon layer of useless abstractions.

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