Re: Proposal for inclusion in Desktop: GNOME Power Manager

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

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 <hughsient gmail com>:
> > 
> > > 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.