Power Management Software

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Clever Power Management

Open bugs:

Suspend and resume not working yet: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/508
The battery charging algorithms have problems

Other questions:

Why does the power button (hardware) do nothing? Will it send out

keycodes or some other events in the future?

How do you change the backlight brightness from a program (rather than

the keyboard buttons)?

How is the brightness level being changed? Some embedded EC? OF? Do we

get a userspace signal/event when the user changes it?

DPMS seems not to work. "sleep 1 && xset dpms force off" does nothing.
Where are per-session settings meant to be stored? GConf? How much configuration should there be allowed?

Current Priorities:

Battery class stuff integrated with HAL.
Software control of backlight in HAL.
Small session daemon created that exposes a similar DBUS interface to g-p-m.
Sugar UI element created for telling how much charge we have left
Sugar UI emement created for configuration?

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