9.1 Proposal: Power.

[david at lang.hm]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Chris Ball wrote:

> We made an incremental step in 8.2, offering automatic power management
> that is disabled by default, and I propose a talk covering what needs
> to happen for us to be comfortable taking the next step to enable it
> by default in 9.1.  Topics will likely include:
>
>   * setting up multicast groups for wakeup during collaboration
>   * exposing a wakeup-timer API in Sugar to allow scheduled wakeups
>   * faster resume

as a G1G1 user one annoyance of enabling power savings is the screen 
dimming while I am reading a page. I thought this was supposed to be 
improved, but I saw the same thing when I upgraded to 767 a week ago.

David Lang