Thread: [ANN.] [Maemo 5] 3G/2G Mode Selection Applet
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2010-01-08 , 18:37
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Originally Posted by HugoSon View Post
ok - sorry: but usecase for this app? battery life?
I guess so... God knows there's been many requests for it...

Originally Posted by ARJWright View Post
Ok, this is really bad to quote yourself, but Qwerty12, do you have any thoughts about how hard it would be for developers to simply plug into applet you just made to do just this - if you will, depending on the state of the device as your applet reports, they either change to the appropriate wireless state or not.

To end-users, it would offer a way to see and regulate those applications individually which might be more battery-intensive; which should give better feedback towards power management strategies that can be utilized for Maemo 5 and beyond for developers.

Just a thought...
No need to plug into my applet; people can just call the D-Bus methods provided by Phone.Net directly to get the current network mode and set it.

But the question that comes to mind is: How would this be done without causing disruption (I'd imagine the mode continually being switched when an application starts/stops wouldn't be pleasant) and handling mulitasking would be fun...