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 _______________________________________________ utopia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/utopia-list
