GNOME Power Manager and Solaris Power Management

Until now, Solaris doesn't have a convenient desktop application which
enables users to manage and monitor power consumption and battery
status. Especially for laptop users, they cannot manage their power
consumption easily similar to what's been done in Windows and Linux.
Though battery status applet has been put into Nevada, they still can't
control what the system should do if the battery power is critically low
or what should be done if they close the lid. In Solaris 10, we provide
dtpower to help users to configure some power parameters. However,
nowadays the features it provides are no longer sufficient. We often
hear users complaining that Solaris consumes much more battery power
than other OS'es, and it can't suspend/hibernate. To offer an acceptable
desktop for Solaris users, we must solve this problem.

In this talk, the presenter will introduce the power management solution
in Solaris from desktop perspective. First, background information about
power management and Solaris Power Management framework will be
described. Then concepts related to power management will be introduced.
Lastly he introduces what GNOME Power Manager is, its architecture and
how it is ported to Solaris from Linux.