The future of PowerDevil (and of power management)
PowerDevil has proven to be quite a solid software, and I’m both proud and happy about it: the 4.2->4.3 transition has happened almost with no maintainance (apart from a critical bugfix from Jacopo, thanks!). The proportion of bugs affecting it regard 20% up/downstream problems, 25% “please implement the feature x” and 15% “oh, the GUI sucks and looks confusing” (yeah, percentages are not accurate, I can tell)
The problem is that PowerDevil GUI does suck, big time, because it’s way too cluttered. However, I can’t add cool and nice features without cluttering it even more. Result, there has to be something wrong. The topic came back today by chance in a short conversation with Martin, and while I was eating, suddenly (and by chance, I was not even thinking about it) I got struck by an idea.
Let’s start knowing that Power Management is something that is very much linked to the hardware, and the average user should have a minor part in configuring/dealing with it.
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