Re: Empty Power panel in System Settings

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:21 AM, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha ubuntu com> wrote:
> I had a bug this week where the power was screwy and GNOME briefly
> thought my laptop was a desktop. I was awfully surprised to see that
> the Power panel in System Settings 3.2 has only one item "Suspend when
> inactive for...". This looks really bad. I'm not certain that
> autoresizing the window is a great idea but a huge empty space isn't
> good either, but resizing from taking up half the screen on my laptop
> down to an All Settings button and one option just doesn't feel right.

A minimum height for the panels was recently introduced. Could do with
some tweaking, maybe. The resize really needs to be animated, too.

> GNOME's getting criticism for cutting out options and this design
> seems to be accenting the emptiness of what's left after possibly too
> much pruning.

The options haven't been removed just for the sake of it. Please see
the relevant design page [1].
The mockups are up to date, and there are notes on why some of the
options have been removed.

> There are 20 items in System Settings now, which might be recreating
> some of the trouble with the old gnome-control-center. I still get
> confused on the difference between Displays, Power, and Screen and
> I've been using GNOME for years.

Differentiating between displays and screen is a known bug [2] that
has been getting attention recently.

> I think there is a whole lot of
> overlap between Power and Screen.

I agree.

> As others have said, I wish design had its own mailing list where I
> could ask questions like this & not "spam" the whole developer list. I
> don't think opening a bug is a good idea when the solution isn't clear
> and using IRC for decision making (especially without IRC logs)
> excludes those who can't participate in real time during the
> European/American workday.

No comment. :)

Allan

[1] https://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/Power
[2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=653015
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