Re: [Ayatana] Refining the battery status menu

2010-05-19 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
I think the idea of clearly identified batteries is important in cases where there are multiple batteries, yes. But this should be handled at the hardware layer, not exposed through the UI or even GConf. Mark signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Ayatana] Refining the battery status menu

2010-05-18 Thread Conscious User
> I don't think we want to mislead people into thinking that renaming > laptop batteries is a good use of their time. :-) For the end-user, I agree. But the OEM might like that, as it helps making things less geekish in a buyer's first glance. Perhaps a middle-ground, like a gconf entry, would be

Re: [Ayatana] Refining the battery status menu

2010-05-18 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Deslauriers wrote on 23/04/10 16:36: > > On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 16:17 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: >> >> On the Canonical Design site, I've just posted about the design of >> Ubuntu's battery status menu. >>

Re: [Ayatana] Refining the battery status menu

2010-04-26 Thread Frederik Nnaji
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 17:36, Marc Deslauriers wrote: > On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 16:17 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: >> On the Canonical Design site, I've just posted about the design of >> Ubuntu's battery status menu. >> >> very nice, can't wait

Re: [Ayatana] Refining the battery status menu

2010-04-23 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 16:17 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > On the Canonical Design site, I've just posted about the design of > Ubuntu's battery status menu. > > > (As an experiment, I've posted the same thing on the Ubuntu Forums. >

[Ayatana] Refining the battery status menu

2010-04-23 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello again everyone On the Canonical Design site, I've just posted about the design of Ubuntu's battery status menu. (As an experiment, I've posted the same thing on the Ubuntu Forums.