Comments on: Sharing some PowerDevil love, and some dinosaurs too http://drfav.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/sharing-some-powerdevil-love-and-some-dinosaurs-too/ Life is what you make it, that's why I'm trying my best Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:43:55 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Sir Alex http://drfav.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/sharing-some-powerdevil-love-and-some-dinosaurs-too/#comment-103 Sir Alex Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:03:06 +0000 http://drfav.wordpress.com/?p=46#comment-103 Well, just compiled the tagged SVN under 4.1, no problems at all! I will test out if everything works on the next reboot, until then, nice work! Well, just compiled the tagged SVN under 4.1, no problems at all!
I will test out if everything works on the next reboot, until then, nice work!

]]> By: ANonymous Coward http://drfav.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/sharing-some-powerdevil-love-and-some-dinosaurs-too/#comment-95 ANonymous Coward Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:25:40 +0000 http://drfav.wordpress.com/?p=46#comment-95 Pick the best polling system and stick to it. Giving the choice of different polling algorithms to the user is confusing and bad design. Decisions like these spread throughout the KDE desktop are why I use Gnome instead-- no craziness. Pick the best polling system and stick to it. Giving the choice of different polling algorithms to the user is confusing and bad design.

Decisions like these spread throughout the KDE desktop are why I use Gnome instead– no craziness.

]]> By: drfav http://drfav.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/sharing-some-powerdevil-love-and-some-dinosaurs-too/#comment-92 drfav Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:08:36 +0000 http://drfav.wordpress.com/?p=46#comment-92 @Aaron: well, I had the same thought too. I think the best thing would be to provide the option to change polling method to experienced users, aka hide it somewhere, since for any reason, somebody might want to try a different method. Maybe we should discuss this in the list + have a talk about usability. Anyway, XSync now works perfectly, and this means 0 unneeded wakeups, making PowerDevil the most efficient power manager on earth :) At the current status, I'll backport latest changes and release a tarball for 4.1 soon. @Aaron: well, I had the same thought too. I think the best thing would be to provide the option to change polling method to experienced users, aka hide it somewhere, since for any reason, somebody might want to try a different method. Maybe we should discuss this in the list + have a talk about usability.

Anyway, XSync now works perfectly, and this means 0 unneeded wakeups, making PowerDevil the most efficient power manager on earth :) At the current status, I’ll backport latest changes and release a tarball for 4.1 soon.

]]> By: Aaron Seigo http://drfav.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/sharing-some-powerdevil-love-and-some-dinosaurs-too/#comment-91 Aaron Seigo Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:13:37 +0000 http://drfav.wordpress.com/?p=46#comment-91 "By now, you can choose in the configuration dialog to use this new XSync based method (that still needs serious testing), or the old, solid, widget grabber method." hopefully that's just temporary? i mean, it seems like a bit of a technical issue to showin a configuration dialog to the user? i'd personally prefer to see this remain a non-gui option if needed, and default to the XSync method where it is available. “By now, you can choose in the configuration dialog to use this new XSync based method (that still needs serious testing), or the old, solid, widget grabber method.”

hopefully that’s just temporary? i mean, it seems like a bit of a technical issue to showin a configuration dialog to the user? i’d personally prefer to see this remain a non-gui option if needed, and default to the XSync method where it is available.

]]> By: drfav http://drfav.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/sharing-some-powerdevil-love-and-some-dinosaurs-too/#comment-90 drfav Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:59:41 +0000 http://drfav.wordpress.com/?p=46#comment-90 thanks andy, I forgot to add a patch to make the docbook compile. It is fixed in latest svn :) Thanks for your wishes, I'll pass the exam for you guys :D thanks andy, I forgot to add a patch to make the docbook compile. It is fixed in latest svn :)

Thanks for your wishes, I’ll pass the exam for you guys :D

]]> By: andy http://drfav.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/sharing-some-powerdevil-love-and-some-dinosaurs-too/#comment-89 andy Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:54:23 +0000 http://drfav.wordpress.com/?p=46#comment-89 Hi, I tried to compile it under 4.1, but got this error: index.docbook:10: parser error : Entity 'Dario.Freddi' not defined &Dario.Freddi;&Dario.Freddi.mail; ^ index.docbook:10: parser error : Entity 'Dario.Freddi.mail' not defined &Dario.Freddi;&Dario.Freddi.mail; ^ index.docbook:10: element author: validity error : Element author content does not follow the DTD, expecting ((personname | (honorific | firstname | surname | lineage | othername | affiliation | authorblurb | contrib)+) , (personblurb | email | address)*), got (CDATA CDATA) &Dario.Freddi;&Dario.Freddi.mail; ^ make[2]: *** [doc/index.cache.bz2] Fehler 1 make[1]: *** [doc/CMakeFiles/doc-handbook.dir/all] Fehler 2 make: *** [all] Fehler 2 Hi,
I tried to compile it under 4.1, but got this error:

index.docbook:10: parser error : Entity ‘Dario.Freddi’ not defined
&Dario.Freddi;&Dario.Freddi.mail;
^
index.docbook:10: parser error : Entity ‘Dario.Freddi.mail’ not defined
&Dario.Freddi;&Dario.Freddi.mail;
^
index.docbook:10: element author: validity error : Element author content does not follow the DTD, expecting ((personname | (honorific | firstname | surname | lineage | othername | affiliation | authorblurb | contrib)+) , (personblurb | email | address)*), got (CDATA CDATA)
&Dario.Freddi;&Dario.Freddi.mail;
^
make[2]: *** [doc/index.cache.bz2] Fehler 1
make[1]: *** [doc/CMakeFiles/doc-handbook.dir/all] Fehler 2
make: *** [all] Fehler 2

]]> By: notmart http://drfav.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/sharing-some-powerdevil-love-and-some-dinosaurs-too/#comment-88 notmart Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:29:23 +0000 http://drfav.wordpress.com/?p=46#comment-88 in bocca al lupo :-) in bocca al lupo :-)

]]> By: Stefan http://drfav.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/sharing-some-powerdevil-love-and-some-dinosaurs-too/#comment-87 Stefan Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:29:46 +0000 http://drfav.wordpress.com/?p=46#comment-87 Good luck with your exam (I do also have a big one coming, it is maths next week). :-) Good luck with your exam (I do also have a big one coming, it is maths next week). :-)

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