>From Richard Hughes, author of GPM, in response to our bug request: > For example, right now GPM gives the following notification: > title = "Power Information" > message = "Laptop battery fully charged (100%). Provides 2 hours 5 minutes > battery runtime." > > Can be made: > title = "Battery full" > message = "2 hours 5 minutes battery runtime available"
Sure, agreed. > Some more information: > 1) Usually the strings are constructed as follows: > "<DEVICE NAME> <event> <time>. ( <percentage> )" > <DEVICE NAME> is chosen to be the verbose "Laptop battery" to distinguish > between phone, keyboard, laptop, etc. However, on systems without any > peripherals, it could be just "Battery." Additionally, even systmes with > peripherals "Battery" would be inferred to mean "Laptop battery," so it may > not > be necessary. No, I just had battery there before, and I got bugs about _which_ battery it was referring to... If there are no other battery type devices present, I guess this makes sense. > 2) having both <time> and ( <percentage> ) may be redundant. Only if the time is accurate -- which on some systems it's not. > 3) the title "Power Information" could be dropped for something more > descriptive for each event (such as "Battery full" or "AC unplugged") I agree with this. > On launchpad I started developing a mock-up patch to test some of these ideas > to get user feedback when Martin Pitt suggested we send this upstream since we > would also need translation support and feedback from GNOME. Totally, there's no point developing this in sekret just for Ubuntu. > The specification also includes new icons, which is discussed on both the ML > and launchpad site. I think the new icons could be harder to swallow -- but you could raise this topic on desktop development list and see what the feedback is. Anyway, patches welcomed with open arms. Please do patches against git master. Thanks. Richard. -- Feature request : Possible improvements for notifications https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/399492 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
