Re: [Utopia] GNOME Power Manager "redesign"

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 15:10 -0400, Joe Shaw wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 18:44 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > * One notification area icon, displaying either battery status for
> > laptops (like the old battery icon
> > http://gnome-power.sourceforge.net/images/battery-all.png) or the UPS
> > for servers. For desktops no icon would be needed. Multiple laptop
> > batteries would be shown as one "virtual" battery with the charge
> > averaged and the time remaining added.
> 
> It might be nice to show additional icons when batteries are low.  For
> example, I don't normally care about the battery in my wireless mouse
> except when it's low.  I'm not exactly sure which icon you'd want to use
> in this case, though.

The red one? http://gnome-power.sourceforge.net/images/mouse-all.png

I think you are right about this. Hardcoded to display when low or make
a checkbox option?

> > * A multiline tooltip when hovering over the aforementioned icon.
> > (DavidZ's ascii art, not mine:-)
> >  +--------------------------------------+
> >  | 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 |
> >  +--------------------------------------+
> 
> Big tooltips will look bad, and normally you don't do this sort of
> formatting in a tooltip.  This seems to me like something to stick in a
> dialog that you get to from a right-click menu.  Including some
> information in a tooltip is a good idea.
> 
> (Right now, the gnome battery applet is displaying for me:
> 
>         System is running on AC power
>         Battery charged (100%)
>         
> which seems like a nice, concise tooltip which gets across all the
> neccessary info.)

Okay, and add an extra lines to have the extra stuff like so:

        System is running on UPS power
        Battery charged (100%)
        Logitech MX-1000 Mouse (72%)

This is more compact. Thanks.

> > The "power modes" combobox would only display if batteries are present,
> > as too would the UPS tab (and lines on tooltip) with UPS hardware. The
> > "laptop lid" options would only show if the machine has such hardware
> > too.
> 
> The screenshots for the preferences look good, but I'm not sure the
> light bulb hint things are very useful.  "Options are settings that you
> may wish to change."  Well duh. :)

Lol, sorry, this was a quick mockup. The text wasn't really thought
about. Which lightbulbs are needed? Should anything be explained?

Thanks, Richard