Andrew Sobala wrote: > Corey Burger wrote: >> On 4/9/06, Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On 4/9/06, Andrew Sobala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> It's worth pointing out that gnome-power-manager is very much a >>>> notifier >>>> rather than an interactive applet. If your power cable falls out, it >>>> pops up a message saying you've lost power. If you're working away from >>>> a power source, there's a battery indicator with how much power you've >>>> got left... that disappears when you're fully charged. >>>> >>>> (At least, that's how it's configured on my system.) >>>> >>> This isn't the default, FWIW. I do agree that making this the default >>> behavior would be the best approach- better, IMHO, than a regular >>> panel applet. I only want to know about power when something bad is >>> going wrong, which is exactly what the notification area is for. An >>> applet is all the time, and so is the current default behavior in the >>> notification area- both of which are broken. >>> >>> Luis >>> >> >> I completely disagree. There are a few good reasons why an icon should >> be displayed all the time >> >> 1. What state the battery is in is always relevant. Power is the >> single most important thing on a laptop. Without it, you are going >> nowhere. Whether or not it is a notification icon or an applet is a >> detail I won't comment on. >> > Nope. I'm working on a laptop at the moment, and I don't care that my > battery is fully charged. This is because it's plugged into the wall. If > I wasn't plugged into the wall, I'd start caring - but I'd also get a > battery symbol.
Am I the only one who mouses over the applet to see how much more time until the battery is fully charged? > > I'd suggest you actually try using g-p-m like this. >> 2. A hidden icon is impossible to view. Unlike Windows, you cannot >> expand a slider to see hidden icons. > This is because when it disappears, it doesn't give you any information. > > As a sidenote, I believe the windows slider was invented to leave some > room for the task bar when you have 40 icons in your notification area, > one for every application installed on the system. The GNOME > notification area isn't intended to be (and for the most part, isn't) > used in this way, so we don't need a way to hide icons that shouldn't be > there in the first place. > In windows I have to set the option to "always show the battery icon, even when plugged in". If I have the room, I like to see the status of my power on my laptop. Who here has a system monitor applet on their panel? Should this be switched to a simple notification (your cpu has been at 100% for 2 minutes). That would be insane, this is why your car has a gas gauge--you can look at it whenever you want to know how much gas you have, and an 'idiot light'(notification) for when gas/power gets low. >> 3. Consistency. Now this is normally not an argument I think holds any >> weight, but in this instance I think it does. Without a compelling >> reason to break consistency with other operating systems/desktop >> environments, I don't see why we should. >> > > I do. We're better :-P > > -- > Andrew Scott _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list