Description:

Uses of GNOME Power Manager infrastructure
- A dialogue that warns the user when on UPS power, that automatically
begins a kind shutdown when the power gets critically low.
- An icon that allows a user to dim the LCD screen with a slider, and
does do automatically when going from mains to battery power on a
laptop.
- An icon, that when an additional battery is inserted, updates it's
display to show two batteries and recalculates how much time
remaining. Would work for wireless mouse and keyboards, UPS's and
PDA's.
- A daemon that does a clean shutdown when the battery is critically
low or does a soft-suspend when you close the lid on your laptop (or
press the "suspend" button on your PC).
- Tell Totem to use a codec that does low quality processing to
conserve battery power.
- Postpone indexing of databases (e.g. up2date) or other heavy
operations until on mains power.
- Presentation programs / movie players don't want the screensaver
starting or screen blanking.