Re: [gpm] Power Manager Upgrade

[Peter Jones <pjones redhat com>]

On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 20:09 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 12:50 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > 
> > [1] : I really really like the settings UI in g-p-m 2.16. Looking at
> > CVS
> > HEAD, at least a few weeks ago, it looked like the road to disaster
> > (sorry if this is flaming). Has anyone filed a bug on it yet?
> 
> No, that's not flaming. The reason it was changed was that as more
> functionality was added it was difficult to keep the "on Ac" / "on
> Battery" list due to space requirements and code complexity. It also
> made keeping the right tabs and options hidden a nightmare as each thing
> had to be done three times with three sets of widget rules.
> 
> I agree we could do some cleanup and higification, but I think we need
> to stay with the "task" based tabs rather than the "state" based tabs.

Maybe the list of various batteries and states could go on a left-click
popup?

Or not; I haven't looked at CVS of g-p-m in a while, so I'm making
suggestions blindly.

-- 
  Peter