GNOME Power Manager project gets underway (GnomeDesktop) [LWN.net]

GnomeDesktop looks at the current state of power management software under GNOME. "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."

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GNOME Power Manager project gets underway (GnomeDesktop)

Posted Mar 25, 2005 1:44 UTC (Fri) by lakeland (subscriber, #1157) [Link]

Well, it 'just worked' with my laptop (apple G3). But a sample of one
isn't especially scientific...

GNOME Power Manager project gets underway (GnomeDesktop)

Posted Mar 25, 2005 9:48 UTC (Fri) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

I've never had a laptop -- and I've used three dells, two gateways and an
apple -- where KDE's powermanagement didn't just work either -- never a
hint of a problem.

GNOME Power Manager project gets underway (GnomeDesktop)

Posted Mar 31, 2005 17:11 UTC (Thu) by elanthis (guest, #6227) [Link]

Power management on both KDE and GNOME currently will often *work* for many basic features. That isn't the goal of PowerManager. Instead of just displaying battery time remaining and other very simple items, PowerManager aims for handling a far wider variety of power-related events and devices, as well as providing a solid framework for all apps to query the state of power (such as whether there is a limited amount of power available) in a relatively desktop-framework-agnostic way. Additionally, PowerManager is based on HAL, unlike previous solutions, which means that new power devices can be added without updating any software other than HAL. Currently, if a new API or device type is added, the many various power-management utilities and libraries have to be updated to understand it. PowerManager centralized that work.