SUMMARY This could be a really useful feature. I would imagine the energy saving like: - disable all animations (set the speed to max does that right? - disable all kwin effects that use shaders, transparency or animations - set screen turn off to 1min on battery - reduce number of background apps - dont check for updates or appy updates Things users could enable/disable - change power_profiles_daemon to use energy saving mode - set OLED black theme (for some devices, plasma mobile etc. future stuff)
If possible a TLP integration would be great too. Even if it was just adding "tlp start" to the executed scripts on battery mode
Seems like it could be a sensible idea in general. We'd want to make sure that the things it does *actually* save energy, though.
what other ideas would you have for energy saving? These are all things KDE can do currently afaik I could think of. Things like reducing the CPU cores to a total of 4 (less may be worse), limiting Frequency e.g. would be great too, but are pretty hardware-specific. There are general tools for AMD for example, this could maybe work. But for me just display timeout does a lot.