[Goodies-dev] proposal for xfce4-power-plugin

[Zach Carter]

Hi:

I've been thinking about creating a panel plugin to help with power management 
within XFCE.   This would be similar to the gnome-power-manager and 
kpowersave utilities.   It would run as a front end to the command line package
called pm-utils, which is included in debian, fedora, and suse (any others?).

Initial features would include:
- suspend to ram
- suspend to disk
- powersave mode
- monitoring of power management modes and settings

Features to add later:
- automatic changing power states after periods of inactivity
- multiple power management profiles
- tweaking various power-related settings (laptop-mode, cpufreq, sched, etc.)

Is anyone already working on something like this?  

Does this appeal to anyone?  I'll do all the coding, but I'd like to know if anyone
would actually want to use it.

Thoughts, Suggestions?

-Zach