On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 15:11 +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 17:10 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: > > Quoting Richard Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > The icon is configurable to whether it stays in the tray whilst > > > charging / discharging, low (still need to fully code this), not full -- > > > so I guess the sanest option from a usability perspective would to just > > > show the icon when charging or discharging, or when a device is low. > > > > > > I went against the applet-as-notifier type design, as g-p-m is a session > > > daemon, running once per user. A user could add more than one applet > > > (and have contention) or not add any at all (and have no > > > power-management) -- plus I figured the user was being "notified" of the > > > battery state. > > > > I am concerned about 2 things: information overload and redundant > > notification. > > > > GPM should also require no display settings. It should either communicate > > through the battstat applet if it is running on the panel, or in some other > > non-obtrusive way. If we have two separate things showing battery power in > > the > > core desktop then we've obviously done something wrong. > > > AFAIK, g-p-m should just replace battast, so it shouldn't be running > when g-p-m is running.
That's my view too (else it gets *very* complicated when you take into account all the interactions). Richard. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
