Re: [gpm] How could the inhibit applet be made more discoverable?

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 18:54 -0400, Jason Spiro wrote:
> 2007/6/29, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>:
> > On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 12:49 -0600, Jason Spiro wrote:
> > > Hi all.  Thanks for all your work on g-p-m; it's great.  The inhibit
> > > applet is also cool, but AFAIK you must look in the Add Applets to
> > > Panel window to see it.  Wouldn't it be good if it were made more
> > > discoverable?
> >
> > Hmm, until the new applet API is in GNOME we can't programmaticaly add
> > applets to the panel.
> 
> So maybe it'd be better to wait?

Yes, I think so. Maybe 2.21 might be the best point for the conversion.

> > Hmm, a good idea but not really obvious enough in my opinion. You got
> > any other ideas? Maybe just a tooltip in gnome-power-preferences when
> > you hover over the combobox might be better?
> >
> 
> I think a tooltip would work, even though people usually don't use
> tooltips to convey that kind of information.  How about just adding
> some text to the dialog box? e.g.
> 
> Tip: Want to temporarily stop your computer from going into standby
> mode?  Try the "inhibit applet".  To add it to your taskbar, ...

We need something like this in the help text. Anything in a tip or
tooltip has to be short and concise, something like "see the help file
for suspend tips".

Richard.