On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 19:56 +0200, Jaap Haitsma wrote: > David Nielsen wrote: > >>1. Should the main battery icon display a "virtual" battery with the > >>level of the average of the batteries, or just the lowest battery? > > > > > > I like the idea of batching together batteries, it seems logical to just > > treat them as one source of power. Agree. Thats what I instinctively thought. > >>2. Should the tooltip remaining time be displayed like so: > >>------------------------ > >>Laptop battery #1 charging (60%) > >>14 minutes until charged > >>Laptop battery #2 charged (60%) > >>1 hour 20 remaining > >>------------------------ > > > > Why not just have > > -------------------------- > > Battery time left: > > 1 hour 20 min > > -------------------------- Because it doesn't tell you how long until you are completely full (or is this not important?) > > And if you are plugged in to a power outlet of course we just display a > > message that says we are plugged in or charging (which ever would be the > > case). > I agree. Just keep it as simple as possible. If you want very detailed > info like what kind of batteries, type of wireless mouse etc. etc., I > would introduce a kind of Status menu item which shows all the detailed > info. This has come up before - to view specifics like serial number of batteries and things like that, but I'm undecided. > I'm not sure if you would want that, because in principle people > don't care which kind of batteries and how many they have. People only > want to know if they are charged and how much time they can still use them. Thanks Jaap, Richard. -- http://www.hughsie.com/PUBLIC-KEY
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