On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 12:25 +0200, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 11:59 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 01:28, Corey Burger wrote: > > > On 4/9/06, Andrew Sobala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Elijah Newren wrote: > > > > > On 4/9/06, Scott J. Harmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> Am I the only one who mouses over the applet to see how much more > > > > >> time > > > > >> until the battery is fully charged? > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > Definitely not; I rely on this frequently. I'd be heavily annoyed if > > > > > the applet wasn't showing (and no other equally easy way of obtaining > > > > > this information was available) when my laptop is plugged in and not > > > > > fully charged. If it's both plugged in and fully charged then I'd be > > > > > fine with it not being there, as long as that was the only case. > > > > > > > > > Hmm. In this configuration, it is. > > > > > > The problem with hiding in this case is that the user must know that > > > when they are plugged in and fully charged, the icon will vanish, > > > rather than just looking and seeing that they are fully charged and > > > plugged in. Ouch. > > > > Well, if once the battery reaches 100%, a short-lived notification > > bubble says so then the icon can disappear without harm. No need to > > pollute the notification area with a "battery is full" icon, OTOH on the > > road the fuel gauge is important. > > > > IMHO the best design is found in PocketPC2003: the battery icon starts > > to appear only when it's half-empty. > > > While this debate about people's battery status preferences is extremely > interesting and intellectually challenging I think its on a level of > nitpickery that belongs on either some HIG related list or in bugzilla.
Yes, agreed. > The actual question at hand is, Is GPM ready to go into GNOME 2.16? > That is a yes or no question, it is not a request for people to pipe up > with marginal feature request of the day or state their vision for > notification/applets in GNOME. Exactly. > If people want to design and code a new > way for doing notification applets please do so and it will probably > have a good chance to go in, but if you are only interested in sharing > your feelings with the world on battery notification or applets in > general please do so somewhere else. This is the desktop-devel list, not > the desktop-feelings list. > > Personally my answer to the is GPM ready question is yes. A big thanks > Richard for his work on GPM. Thanks Christian. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list