Re: [Usability] questions for the UI gurus



On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 11:37 +0900, Ryan McDougall wrote:

> Currently you direct the user to recharge the battery. Perhaps it would
> be more clear to direct them to "reconnect the computer to an electric
> outlet". Although that is laptop-specific, does the applet monitor UPSs?

No, only batteries. Unless UPSes appear as batteries in Linux...

> Also, I just noticed that the applet currently say "System is running on
> AC power" when connected to an outlet. Would it be simpler to say
> "battery is recharging from electric outlet"?

There was a bug filed by Seth many moons ago to overhaul all the strings
in the battery applet, to make them simpler, and such.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89866

If people are in support of a string overhaul, I'll do it.

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