Robert Collins wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 18:14 +0000, Rick McBride wrote:
>> we should try to get power status from Power Manager (or the equivalent)
>> and do things differently when on battery than when on Mains. For
>> instance, sync should be a manual thing. Possibly this could be
>> configurable as well (if, for instance the user places priority on sync
>> rather than battery life.
>>
>> Similar to the power profiles that can be set...
>
> When I observed this behaviour I had no network either. No matter the
> priority on sync, with no network and no UI open on the ubuntu one
> shares its hard to justify 5% of wakeups from the syncdaemon.
>
> I agree that there may be a need to let people choose what they want;
> however I think it would be nicer to just choose good defaults before
> worrying about customisation.
>
> -Rob
>
Agreed. Good defaults come first, and customization later.
Robert Collins wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 18:14 +0000, Rick McBride wrote:
>> we should try to get power status from Power Manager (or the equivalent)
>> and do things differently when on battery than when on Mains. For
>> instance, sync should be a manual thing. Possibly this could be
>> configurable as well (if, for instance the user places priority on sync
>> rather than battery life.
>>
>> Similar to the power profiles that can be set...
>
> When I observed this behaviour I had no network either. No matter the
> priority on sync, with no network and no UI open on the ubuntu one
> shares its hard to justify 5% of wakeups from the syncdaemon.
>
> I agree that there may be a need to let people choose what they want;
> however I think it would be nicer to just choose good defaults before
> worrying about customisation.
>
> -Rob
>
Agreed. Good defaults come first, and customization later.