On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 15:52 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 20:18 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > > > When I'm sitting in the park and my laptop is running on battery I want > > > it to suspend after 10 minutes. When it's plugged into mains at work I > > > want it to be two hours. Look at the XvsXP site I posted in my original > > > mail for more examples. > > > > > > > Is what I've done currently the right sort of profile thing or is there > > > > a better way. > > > > > > Please elaborate. > > > > At the moment there are two different combos for "on mains" and "on > > batteries" for all the suspend type stuff. I.e. you can set to suspend > > after 10 minutes if on battery, and after 1 hour if on mains. > > Yeah, I see that. I would shuffle the dialog around so it's more > intuitive though, something like OS X one http://www.xvsxp.com/power/ ; > that one is really good.
Cool, I'll have a play tomorrow with new layouts. > So, I'd have single combo box for settings (default to whatever state > the system is in) and two tabs "Sleep" and "Options" > > +-------------------------------------------+ > | | > | Setting: [Power Adapter / Battery Power] | <--- visible only if > | _________________ | the system have > | | Sleep | Options | | batteries. For > | +---------------------------------------+ + desktop systems it > | | | | is not visible > | | (stuff goes here) | | > | | | | > | +---------------------------------------+ | > | | > | [X] Display icon in notification area | > | | > | [Close] | > +-------------------------------------------+ > > Things I in the current preference dialog that I wouldn't include > > - "Sleep type"; it doesn't make sense to ask the user about this [1] Okay, I didn't know how configurable this should be - maybe only make configurable in gconf... > - "Display icon on toolbar"; fix up wording and make it a global option Will do. > - "Primary Batteries"; not interesting to the user I'll have a play with the new layout, thanks. > - "Buttons"; move this to "Options" [2] Yes, I was thinking of this myself; a generic options page for the misc. stuff. > 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? > [1] : g-p-m should simply choose itself what sleep state to put the > computer in; over time, for ACPI systems this may be S1 (sleep) -> S3 > (deeper sleep) -> S4 (suspend to disk AKA hibernate) after SLEEP_TIME, > 2*SLEEP_TIME and 3*SLEEP_TIME. Just Works and all that... okay. > Either way, the point is that the user will have difficulty figuring the > difference between "Suspend" and "Hibernate" and frankly he should never > have to spend time worrying about the difference. Agree. > No no, I'm not suggesting the user should switch manually :-) Cool, thanks for the input David, Richard. _______________________________________________ utopia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/utopia-list
