On 07/14/2016 01:46 AM, Bastián Díaz wrote:
Tuned is an excellent tool to monitoring system and apply
profile-based
configurations. This tool is very powerful and its use is relegated to the
servers systems, however, it can be put to good use for fedora Workstation for
users seeking advanced settings via a user interface (tuned-gtk).
For example, a good use of tuned in the Workstation is the advanced power
management, even with the possibility of using custom profiles through powerTOP
(laptop users). My experience says that in most cases I have used systems tuned
for that purpose, there has been an increase in battery life (is not the only
use case).
Part of my proposal considers:
• Improve the design of tuned-gtk (like gnome-tweak-tool design)
• Add categories to target profiles to facilitate user choice (Eg. Workstation,
Cloud and Server)
• Add/modify new default tuned profiles for desktop/laptop use, similar to those
available in the "tuned-profiles-compat" package
• Add settings to create a powerTOP profile or add it from a report (html file)
Just to note, the Cockpit administrative console supports tuned as "performance
profiles". They already have quite a few prebuilt profiles. Maybe working with
them would be a better choice than working on tuned-gtk, as it's already a more
modern interface and it works across all of the Editions (notably Server and
Cloud which are generally headless and therefore wouldn't really be good about
running a GTK app).
(see attached screenshot)
All these options would expect for an average user or an advanced
user to
enhance the options available for their device.
I intend to present it in the list and not directly to the authors, is that this
tool can greatly improve the user experience for the target audience of fedora
workstation. For example, the web is full of requests "to improve power
consumption in Linux" and there are several responses that lead to programs that
do not have a user interface and are complicated to use. Tuned-gtk would be used
for the range of user need only choose a predefined profile to those who want to
create their own custom profiles graphically.
When I talk about advanced users, I'm making the parallel with the application
gnome-tweak-tool, but the big problem here is that the user needs root
permissions to use the application, although a change in this area would help
the whole family derived from fedora, as RHEL or CentOS.
Thanks
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