#10787 LOW 11.2.0-: Stopwatch activity and XO power management mix interestingly

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#10787: Stopwatch activity and XO power management mix interestingly
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 Reporter:  greenfeld       |                 Owner:  godiard                          
     Type:  defect          |                Status:  new                              
 Priority:  low             |             Milestone:  11.2.0-M4                        
Component:  other-activity  |               Version:  Development build as of this date
 Keywords:                  |           Next_action:  diagnose                         
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 Stopwatch-6 in 11.2.0 os14 does not use enough system resources to keep
 the system from idling.  XOs therefore can easily switch to idle sleep or
 even fully suspend while one or more stopwatch(es) within the activity are
 running.  This can make it hard to precisely start or stop the timers.  It
 might also confuse someone who is timing a race, etc.

 Perhaps we should disable power saving while the Stopwatch activity is
 running and a timer is active?  Could we make a user selectable choice to
 do so, or would that be too confusing?

 If we do leave things as-is with power saving on, the activity does
 calculate all active timers based off of stored start times, so there is
 no extreme loss of time.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10787>
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