On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 17:23 -0400, Bryan Clark wrote: > 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 :)
Cool, cheers. > 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. Yes, agreed. > The icons you have look pretty good, I'd recommend keeping them simple, > something really similar to notibat [1]. Urm, okay, i like my colour ones better, but it's personal preference I guess. Thats a little matter :-) > > Oh, and I saw the new compacted tooltip in the thread, that looks good > too. Yes, we are making quick progress now. :-) > Here's what I'm assuming is how this system is designed to be used. > > * The target audience is normal users, not enterprise systems. Agree, well, the gconf session settings could be controlled using sabayon in a enterprise setting, but that's a while away. > * The notification area icon appears automatically if someone has a > battery on their system. Agree. > * Access to the preferences can be through a menu item or right click > preferences from the icon Agree. > * The primary use of the dialog is because ACPI is busted and you need > to fix your suspend or lid close behavior Or when you don't like the defaults... > * The secondary use of the dialog is for obsessive compulsive tweaking > of the sleep time settings :-) Yes, do you think we could make profiles for this and just let advanced users use gconf? Or is it okay as it is? > * 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. Sounds like the colour thingiebobwatsit in the battstat applet - which admittedly easy to use. > 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. I'm not keep on using custom GTK widgets... I'll have a think/play. > Great work, We are getting there quickly now. The UI is slowly coming together. Thanks for your comments, appreciated. Richard. _______________________________________________ utopia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/utopia-list
