Hi Richard ~ I like the reworked dialog. I talked to David a little about some changes I think could be good so I'm passing it on to you now :)
The one notification area icon is a good idea. A UPS is only possibly interesting when your power has failed, so showing an icon for it at any other time is superfluous. The mouse wireless icon is only interesting when it's nearing a failure point, pick the best value and display it when the mouse battery reaches that. The icons you have look pretty good, I'd recommend keeping them simple, something really similar to notibat [1]. Oh, and I saw the new compacted tooltip in the thread, that looks good too. Here's what I'm assuming is how this system is designed to be used. * The target audience is normal users, not enterprise systems. * The notification area icon appears automatically if someone has a battery on their system. * Access to the preferences can be through a menu item or right click preferences from the icon * The primary use of the dialog is because ACPI is busted and you need to fix your suspend or lid close behavior * The secondary use of the dialog is for obsessive compulsive tweaking of the sleep time settings :-) * Similar secondary use is tweaking UPS settings I wanted to get an idea of what it is you're trying to make and how you picture it being used so we can figure out the best way to design each piece. A total aside, David had asked me to look at this at the beginning of the week and I just did a quick little thing to try and work out some confusing parts of most power dialogs. You're using the "Setting" thing for this part, but what I did was not to create profiles or different columns to separate the battery and power. When you adjust the sleep timing for battery vs. power your power timings are always greater than your battery. So I made a little drawing of what you could do to visual this to the person. You indicate in a slider which one is battery and which is power and allow them to drag each color to the level they'd like. Take a look: http://gnome.org/~clarkbw/designs/power/sleep%20time.png This is probably pretty hard to create in GTK+, so I'm not expecting to see it, but something like this is how I'd get around that combobox thing. Great work, ~ Bryan [1] http://www.gnome.org/~clarkbw/images/notibat.png _______________________________________________ utopia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/utopia-list
