Re: [gpm] Re: Gnome 2.16 Module Proposal: GNOME Power Manager

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

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 <aes gnome org> wrote:
> > > > Elijah Newren wrote:
> > > > > On 4/9/06, Scott J. Harmon <harmon ksu edu> 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.