Re: No "remaining time" option in battery monitor?

2012-06-19 Thread Sebastian Kügler
Hey, On Tuesday, June 19, 2012 18:07:48 Viranch Mehta wrote: > I read through the thread provided by Marco and I'd like to give in > my bit of suggestion: > > We clearly do not want to mislead the user by giving him a misleading > number (the remaining time). I agree with Aaron that this will mak

Re: No "remaining time" option in battery monitor?

2012-06-19 Thread Viranch Mehta
Hi, I read through the thread provided by Marco and I'd like to give in my bit of suggestion: We clearly do not want to mislead the user by giving him a misleading number (the remaining time). I agree with Aaron that this will make the user trust his computer less. What I suggest is let the user

Re: No "remaining time" option in battery monitor?

2012-06-15 Thread Marco Martin
On Friday 15 June 2012, Shaun Reich wrote: > Was it ever even mainlined? Thought it was just in some branch.. > yes is in 4.9 -- Marco Martin ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel

Re: No "remaining time" option in battery monitor?

2012-06-15 Thread Martin Gräßlin
Am 15.06.2012 09:48, schrieb Aaron J. Seigo: On Friday, June 15, 2012 09:28:17 Martin Gräßlin wrote: Actually Shaun is right: we have removed all these things. If we would i am running kwin w/out compositing right now. so no, we have not removed all of these things. when the various checks we

Re: No "remaining time" option in battery monitor?

2012-06-15 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Shaun Reich wrote: > To me it looks less like a "discussion" and more like a "aaron got pissed > because it didn't work for him, who himself is one person therefore nobody > should have it". Hi Shaun, Just a quick reminder that KDE has a document regarding these

Re: No "remaining time" option in battery monitor?

2012-06-15 Thread Marco Martin
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Shaun Reich wrote: > To me it looks less like a "discussion" and more like a "aaron got pissed > because it didn't work for him, who himself is one person therefore nobody > should have it". > how you exactly expect we engage in a productiive conversation about th

Re: No "remaining time" option in battery monitor?

2012-06-15 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday, June 15, 2012 09:28:17 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > Actually Shaun is right: we have removed all these things. If we would i am running kwin w/out compositing right now. so no, we have not removed all of these things. when the various checks were needed, we took the steps reasonable to fit

Re: No "remaining time" option in battery monitor?

2012-06-15 Thread Kevin Ottens
On Thursday 14 June 2012 20:08:10 Shaun Reich wrote: > To me it looks less like a "discussion" and more like a "aaron got pissed > because it didn't work for him, who himself is one person therefore nobody > should have it". I stopped reading your email right here... It's a) unacceptable to point

Re: No "remaining time" option in battery monitor?

2012-06-15 Thread Martin Gräßlin
Am 15.06.2012 08:55, schrieb Aaron J. Seigo: If not all hardware supports it, tough shit we've been shipping compositing on so much hardware that couldn't support it even in a remote sense yet did it anyways. ... and we have a way of dealing with hardware that doesn't support it. blacklists

Re: No "remaining time" option in battery monitor?

2012-06-14 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday, June 14, 2012 20:08:10 Shaun Reich wrote: > To me it looks less like a "discussion" and more like a "aaron got pissed > because it didn't work for him, who himself is one person therefore nobody > should have it". this is not acceptable. i do not speak to/about you this way. i don't k

Re: No "remaining time" option in battery monitor?

2012-06-14 Thread Shaun Reich
ew, why would it need to be a config option anyways? don't see the point in that. it should just be on mouseover an icon switch and/or tooltip. iirc this was exactly what some non-merged applet did. I believe sebas was the one who made that one as well (which worked well, i might add). >This is no

Re: No "remaining time" option in battery monitor?

2012-06-14 Thread Dario Freddi
2012/6/15 Shaun Reich : > To me it looks less like a "discussion" and more like a "aaron got pissed > because it didn't work for him, who himself is one person therefore nobody > should have it". This is not how things went. There has been an extensive discussion in the past you can easily find in

Re: No "remaining time" option in battery monitor?

2012-06-14 Thread David Edmundson
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Viranch Mehta wrote: > Hi, > > I just noticed there is no option of "remaining time" in the latest stable > released > version of the c++ battery applet (4.8.4). Have we discarded it? I want to > know this > so I can know whether I should keep this in the qml vers

Re: No "remaining time" option in battery monitor?

2012-06-14 Thread Shaun Reich
To me it looks less like a "discussion" and more like a "aaron got pissed because it didn't work for him, who himself is one person therefore nobody should have it". If not all hardware supports it, tough shit we've been shipping compositing on so much hardware that couldn't support it even in a r

Re: No "remaining time" option in battery monitor?

2012-06-14 Thread Marco Martin
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Viranch Mehta wrote: > Hi, > > I just noticed there is no option of "remaining time" in the latest stable > released > version of the c++ battery applet (4.8.4). Have we discarded it? I want to > know this > so I can know whether I should keep this in the qml vers

Re: No "remaining time" option in battery monitor?

2012-06-14 Thread Shaun Reich
Was it ever even mainlined? Thought it was just in some branch.. On Jun 14, 2012 7:12 PM, "Viranch Mehta" wrote: > Hi, > > I just noticed there is no option of "remaining time" in the latest stable > released > version of the c++ battery applet (4.8.4). Have we discarded it? I want to > know this

No "remaining time" option in battery monitor?

2012-06-14 Thread Viranch Mehta
Hi, I just noticed there is no option of "remaining time" in the latest stable released version of the c++ battery applet (4.8.4). Have we discarded it? I want to know this so I can know whether I should keep this in the qml version. Cheers, Viranch ___