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Roadmap to 1.4

Open Issues / Bugs

  • fix incorrect display brightness “normal” level after resuming from suspend; or to describe it differently, reducing the level works, but it won't get set back to 100% but to some other level
  • Update docs
  • split up system sleep mode for battery/AC and put it above “when inactive for”
    • there seems to be separate code for battery and AC already, so splitting up shouldn't be much work
  • help button does not work
    • Works for me – maybe you have a broken version of libxfce4ui? - yes likely (4.11.1 on gentoo), other help buttons don't work too
  • maybe move lock screen option to display tab
  • maybe move lid actions to general tab, next to default actions (and rename this section)
  • make display sleep mode option a hidden option, defaulting to suspend
  • resize panel widgets on gtk style changes
  • remove options that are not working; we can add them back later
    • System tab: “Prefer saving power over performance” - how is it supposed to work anyway (only when on battery)?
    • System tab: Remove “Hard disks” section completely
      • the dbus call seems to have been removed anyway in udisks2
  • nothing handled in xfpm_power_dbus_get_power_save_status; setting powersaving via dbus does not work?
  • automatically select first device in list on devices tab (usually details for AC adapter appear on the right, but the AC adapter entry on the left is not selected, which is slightly confusing

Battery Plugin

Brightness tab (can be postponed)

  • Add checkbox to enable handling of brightness management ( = override kernel)
    • we can check and set /sys/module/video/parameters/brightness_switch_enabled
    • we can check and set /sys/module/video/parameters/use_native_backlight
    • because sometimes xfce4-power-manager might handle backlight better than the kernel driver (finer steps etc.)
  • hide/show tab when on desktop/laptop
  • Move brightness-settings from display tab
  • Add option to deactivate brightness notifications

1.6 (or later)

  • better handle machines that have more than one battery (especially warnings and remaining time, tooltip info about battery)
    • UPower 1.0 has a concept of a display device that is supposed to fix that issue, but we do need it to work for earlier versions.
  • add functionality to execute command line programs or scripts on battery/AC changes
    • enables the user to easily apply additional low-level powersaving stuff that is out of scope of power manager
    • at the moment, this can be achieved via udev rules
    • could be a hidden option, or on an extra tab
  • Consider doing a fade-to-black, if X11's screensaver extension is used (instead of gnome-screensaver or xscreensaver)
  • Detect installed/running lockers and add “Preferred lockscreen:” combobox to the settings-dialog (deprecates the “stupid” xflock script)
  • Add code to handle cpu frequency / governor settings, e.g. powersave/performance switch for intel_pstate.
  • Show current watt usage (upower energy rate available in battery info)