Re: [Utopia] Re: GNOME Power Manager 0.0.3

[David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>]

On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 20:48 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 15:45 -0400, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 15:35 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > > I honestly don't it's worthwhile taking up precious space to display the
> > > battery status of a wireless mouse :-). I'd only display an icon if you
> > > got either a laptop battery or an UPS. If you got the strange
> > > combination of both, the laptop battery wins.
> > > 
> > 
> > I'd like to see an icon if the battery on my wireless mouse or keyboard
> > gets low (like under 15%?).  That way, I wouldn't have to figure out if
> > my battery is dead or my X is hosed. :)  Other than low, however, I
> > don't need an icon.
> 
> Good compromise? Easy to add an option in gconf.

Adding options makes the code more complex and more difficult to read
and maintain so it's rarely the right thing to do. Hard coding stuff is
not as bad as it sounds.

Cheers,
David