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Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur View Post
He has this status menu thing seperate from the actual monitoring program package. So anyone can now write a widget for it, as I understand. So making it possible to have a menu version, widget version, or both, shouldn't be too hard. On the other hand, keep in mind the developer is a person with limited time. It's open source though, so anyone else can pick it up, probably.
Heh, anyone could write his own widget using APM since 2008-2009 And for Maemo 5 there is package 'advanced-power-common', which has useful pieces of code, used in number of apps/widgets.
Indeed, time is limited, especially when maintaining 3 widgets and 5(+ number of localizations) packages...

Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur View Post
Everyone else: since I installed this, I've had Battery Graph reporting a small yet constant processor activity when idle. I can post the picture up here, if people want to see what I'm talking about.
Better watch for load with htop and powertop, those tools give more information about stuff going on.

Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur View Post
But Advanced Power Manager makes more sense. Because it is running in the background, right? Polling system for battery status and calculating the time left? I haven't noticed a drop in battery life too concretely, but it is looks like there's a pretty constant power draw when otherwise idle now.

Anyone else notice this; does this sound like something your Advanced Power Monitor would do, 412b? Would it cound as a bug?
Indeed, APM runs in background, but it uses D-Bus, so it's async. Modules, which are polling data are not included in Maemo 5 version, but even if it would've done CPU load on OS2008 never exceeded unacceptable CPU usage with all polling modules on, normally it's less than 3,2%. And it's on quite slow n810. Speaking about Maemo 5 version: CPU usage is minimal and async, most of the time APM just sits in background sleeping. Python is not as fast as C is and takes more RAM, but still acceptable for everyday use.
 

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