GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 636982
'What's using power' is a weird item to have
Last modified: 2010-12-17 19:23:05 UTC
I understand how it's sort of cool, but it drops the user into gnome-power-statistics. This has a few things that make it not optimal: 1) it's jargon-ny - lots of things displayed as "IRQxx", or things like "Interprocessor interrupt" 2) it's by binary name, not application. For example, 'python', as opposed to whatever python program 3) it doesn't offer any remediation. As an end user, it might be good to know that something called 'pulseaudio' is causing ~100 wakeups per second... but what can they do about it? How does this information help them? Also, the shell doesn't actually require gnome-power-manager, so it's a menu item that does nothing if g-p-m isn't installed.
I realize this could be assigned to g-p-m, to fix g-p-statistics; however I wonder about keeping the option in the shell until some sort of fix of that sort happens.
That power statistics thing is really terrible imo. It simply doesn't tell me what is using power. If we can't have a way to actually tell me what is using power for 3.0 we should drop both this menu item and hopefully not show that powertop ui - ever really.
Created attachment 176433 [details] [review] the obvious patch
Thanks. pushed! (it's even better if patches are attached in git format-patch format, for example, with git bz :-)