John Williams' blog post [1] about the horrible usability breakage in the "Computer failed to suspend" popup reminded me of some other downstream changes to GNOME Power Manager that appear, frankly, to have been done entirely as busy work and do absolutely nothing for usability.
Power Management Preferences has been needlessly crippled. The sliders to control when the computer sleeps and when the display sleeps all have a lower limit of "21 minutes". How is that in any way power saving if the display stays on for 21 minutes before switching off while on battery? In base GNOME, there is no such bottom limit; the user is given full control. If anything, the extra control is healthy for usability. That bottom limit confused me and, if I ran on battery more often, would have had me on a very long quest for answers. I guess the point of this writing is as follows: What's with the change? Bye, -Dylan M [1] http://gnomerocksmyworld.blogspot.com/2008/06/rtfm.html
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