Re: [Utopia] Re: [Gnome-Power-Devel] power mgmt in GNOME; requirements?

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 16:39 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 21:25 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > > Also, I wouldn't mention anything about Wireless Mice etc. in the
> > > preferences dialogs at all - the only visible place in g-p-m for such is
> > > to put up a warning when the battery is low (maybe show them too for the
> > > tooltip for the notification icon).
> > 
> > Not even in misc?
> 
> I cannot think of what options the user wants to tweak? It seems to me
> there are none really.
> 
> However, it seems to me that it's useful information, what about this
> ASCII art proposal for a _tooltip_ when the users hover the pointer over
> the notification area icon:
> 
>  +--------------------------------------+
>  | Running on [Power Adapter|Batteries] | <-+ plural only if two laptop
>  |                                      |   | batteries are inserted
>  | Laptop batteries:        42% charged | <-- 
>  |          2 hours 5 minutes remaining |     
>  |                                      | 
>  | Logitech M600 mouse:     14% charged |
>  |                                      |
>  | APC UPS:                100% charged |
>  |           30 minutes emergency power |
>  +--------------------------------------+
> 
> Just an idea..

A good idea. Got to think about design. Brain...brain...brain... :-)

Thanks, Richard.