On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 10:29 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: > On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 22:01 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote: > > > GNOME Power Manager is a session daemon for the GNOME desktop > > environment that makes it easy to manage your laptop or desktop system. > > I think this is crucial technology. I also think we should kill the > notification icon, unless G-P-M has specific things it needs to notify > users about. Notification icons as applets are just bad mojo.
Yes, ideally the icon appears when a wireless keyboard, mouse, UPS and laptop battery is low on power, and will use libnotify to tell the user when *really* low. The icon is configurable to whether it stays in the tray whilst charging / discharging, low (still need to fully code this), not full -- so I guess the sanest option from a usability perspective would to just show the icon when charging or discharging, or when a device is low. I went against the applet-as-notifier type design, as g-p-m is a session daemon, running once per user. A user could add more than one applet (and have contention) or not add any at all (and have no power-management) -- plus I figured the user was being "notified" of the battery state. Tell me what you think. Richard. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list