Re: [Usability] A battery applet...

[Tuomas Kuosmanen <tigert ximian com>]

On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 10:31 +0000, Sergey Udaltsov wrote:
> Yeah, my "utopia" statement was about compromises. Though generally I
> agree - we should always push things into the "smart desktop"
> direction. But we should always live possibility for manual tweaking
> (through gconf or whatever) - I would say this is as important as
> these "smarts" we can invent. For every heuristics, there is a point
> where it does not work - we should keep this in mind.

Yeah, but once the stuff is good, there is less need for the manual
tweaks. But I agree. Having a gconf key to tweak things does not bother
you in the UI.

> > But I think we'll get there eventually :)
> Quite a statement you made... It is worth putting on the front page of
> the developer.gnome.org (or freedesktop.org, equally)  :)

Heh :)

We must have goals.. it's just been my experience: I have been thinking
about the user interface stuff a lot lately, and I notice a change in
the way I think about these.. So there is hope :)

//Tuomas