Weird downstream Power Manager changes?

[Milan Bouchet-Valat]

Le mardi 03 juin 2008 à 08:06 -0700, Dylan McCall a écrit :
> Aha! Sorry about the double post. Just realized that the minimum is idle
> time + 1 minute, which probably makes sense somewhere. (Except for the 1
> minute part?!). Still, the fact that this basic setting of timers needed
> research to figure out suggests a need for some reorganizing. Firstly,
> idle time should be set in gnome-power-preferences, not just
> gnome-screensaver-preferences, if it has such a widespread impact.
> Furthermore, I think it is problematic that the idle time cannot be set
> differently for when on battery as opposed to when on AC power, again
> because of its tie to screensaver time. Perhaps this would make more
> sense if idle did not automatically trigger the screensaver, instead
> with another timer to handle that.
I'm sure I read a proposal by somebody working on this in GNOME - but I
cannot find where. The chances are you'll land in 2.24 with all those
settings on the same preferences tab. I can't check it though, but maybe
you'll be able to locate this document.

Regards