Power saving by default in Fedora Desktop

[drago01]

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> Elad Alfassa (elad at fedoraproject.org) said:
>> It'd be awesome if we could make sure default Fedora Workstation will have
>> "laptop mode" on by default.
>> Right now I need to run a script that changes many power tunables (got the
>> list from powertop) to save battery on my laptop. It should be default.
>> Perhaps detect if the machine is on-battery and if so enable all power
>> saving features (disable watchdog, increase the
>> vm_dirty_writeback_centisecs value, and so on)?
>> Can this be part of upower? Can we have a setting in Settings for that?
>> (Something like "Enable power saving when on battery (decreases
>> performance)"?
>
> Isn't this the sort of thing that should ship by default? (Whether in a
> tuned profile or something else.)

Someone has to generate some numbers so that we can decide on it.