On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 07:40 -0500, Partha Bagchi wrote:
The latest power manager is competing with the previous one to be the
silliest one of all. It is getting sillier and sillier to use the piece
of abomination especially when it has no exit button,
Does your file manager have an exit button? No..
I do not (which
part of not is difficult to understand??) want to use it.
Yes you do, but you probably don't know :-) - g-p-m also manages the
display power (DPMS) in concert with gnome-screensaver... Also, in the
event a user plugs in a UPS we want an icon to appear and g-p-m to
manage it... Hence, we want this process running in the desktop session
all the time..
Now I have no
way of telling it to do nothing.
Maybe if you looked a bit harder it is possible to configure g-p-m so it
doesn't do anything.. (System->Prefs->More Prefs->Power Mgmt)... of
course that doesn't mean that it's completely bug free..
Unplugging the power puts it in suspend
mode immediately.
That is a bug.. and I guess the one that upsets you.. I've been seeing
that one too... did you file a bug so it will get fixed?
Considering that the wireless (Broadcom bcm43xx) is
not mature enough (starts with network disconnected balloon), it is an
immediate pain in the butt to reactivate it. Also, since the wireless is
built into the Kernel, no way to get rid of that one either!!
Please give it a rest and include a button to exit from it so that I do
not have to 86 it every time I start the computer. BTW, in case it is
not clear, I am using this on a laptop.
Sheesh!
Thanks for your input.
David