On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 00:46 -0600, Callum Lerwick wrote: > No, it's because someone directly measured a reduction in power usage. > Quite scientific, really. Having some savings is not in and of itself an argument, if not correctly quantified (1). Engineering is all about balancing costs/benefits, and it's arguably bad engineering to affect functionality for savings that are probably way too small to measure. And if you adopt the stance that any power saving is good, why don't we do other things that are as simple to implement and can easily save an order of magnitude more power: - replace the background picture with just black - default to a inverted color scheme (predominantly black) - disable pulseaudio The list can go on and on, but where would we end up? These sort of things may make sense for some users, but not by sneaking them in as changes in default behavior. Prompt them at first-boot, let them opt in. Come on folks, it is the reasonable thing to do. 1. The floated value of 2W is probably overstated by at least an order of magnitude, most likely two. -- Dimi Paun <dimi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Lattica, Inc. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
