Crippling Gnome-power-manager, Why!

[Jim Cornette]

I noticed that the power manager is starting to be pretty much a battery 
applet with a few less features. What is this crippling supposed to 
accomplish?

A few days ago, I knew how to prevent closing the display lid on my 
laptop w/o having it go into suspend. today, I am at a loss to how to 
change my power management settings.

I know that there were bug reports requesting removal of the options on 
computers that are presently incapable of successfully going into 
suspend or into hibernate. It does not seem rationale for settings to 
not be easily manageable as if the obstacles preventing those that have 
problems on their systems presently because of lack of resolution in the 
development arena are slower than would be expected.

Removing the features seems like a move to styfle legitimate bug reports 
and hide a legitimate failure on the power management scene.

I hope to see reversal of the degradation of the power manager to yet 
another battery charge indicator.

Jim

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