Re: Request for comment- tuned replacing power-profiles-daemon plan
On 06/11/2023 17:30, Allan Day wrote:
Hi Kate,
On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 8:30 AM Kate Hsuan <hpa(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> ... By
> integrating power-profiles-daemon with tuned, the user can get extra
> features to finetune the system, and the basic feature provided by ppd
> can be used according to the user's demand. It also can reduce the
> efforts of the maintainer.
...
> Moreover, the detailed change proposal can be found here.
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/TunedReplacesPower-profiles-daemon
I just noticed that the change proposal contains the line:
"We expected that the user can set those profile, tuned provided
through gnome-control-panel. To minimize the information to the user,
the power panel would provide a simple and advanced mode to show the
power profiles. If the users want to finetune the system, they can
switch to the advanced mode themselves."
It's a bit unclear if this is a definite plan, a requirement, or more
of a speculative ambition. However, I should probably be clear that
from a GNOME design perspective, an advanced power profile settings
mode would likely be a tough sell. Exposing arbitrary user-defined
profiles would also pose some challenges which it might be difficult
to overcome.
If this change proposal does require UXD changes to GNOME, then I'd
suggest reaching out to us in advance to discuss them.
Wouldn't it also be logical for UPower to replace power-profiles-daemon?
UPower is already integrated into GNOME Settings while tuned is not, not
having an additional dependency might be nicer and beneficial for other
distributions which might not have a tuned package at all.
Greetings,
Jelle van der Waa