G-p-m hding while on AC

[Lakin Wecker]

Users are accustomed to many types of portable devices which run on
batteries: cell-phones, PDAs, music players, and laptops.  Knowing the state
of the battery is an important part of using the device.  Most will expect
to see some sort of battery charge information on the screen, and the lack
of an indicator will not be interpreted as a fully charged laptop. It is yet
another thing that they will have to learn about their Gnome desktop.

I agree with Corey.  It's important information, and the current default
will confuse people until they learn that the absence of the icon means
fully charged.

Lakin

On 3/8/06, Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com> wrote:
>
> Corey Burger wrote:
>
> > On 3/8/06, Christian Bjälevik <nafallo at magicalforest.se> wrote:
> >
> >> ons 2006-03-08 klockan 12:55 -0800 skrev Corey Burger:
> >>
> >>> Here is the problem with hiding it when fully charged and on AC. The
> >>> only way to know see if your battery is fully charged  (after it has
> >>> been charging) is to note the *absence* of any icon. Do you honestly
> >>> expect my father to figure that out?
> >>
> >>
> >> Nope,
>
> stop there.  "person can't figure out" is a problem.
>
>
> >> but I expect him to see the icon when he tries to pull AC out :-) .
> >> Just as I expect him to see a printer after he made an action to print
> >> something.
> >>
> >> Cheers, /C
> >
> >
> >
> > Ok, let me phrase this differently. Why are we making it hard for the
> > user to see the battery state? What are we gaining by making that
> > decision? Is a slightly cleaner panel all we are trying to achieve?
> > Given that battery power is the *single* most important piece of
> > information you want when running a laptop, I don't see the advantage
> > here.
> >
> > Corey
> >
>
> I agree with Corey.
>
> Here is my view on precious panel space - there are 2 cases:
>
> 1. there are few other icons, so in this case adding one won't hurt.
>
> 2. there are many other icons, so in this case it is hard to figure out if
> the
> power one is missing.  In this case, I find it much easier to find the
> power
> icon and see what the status is.  On systems where I can't find it, I
> always
> think "is the battery at 50% but there isn't any icon to report this?"
>
> On printer icons: if the printer isn't doing anything, I don't care, and
> don't
> really have any need to go looking for it's status.  With a battery,
> knowing it
> is charged is something I want to know, even when it is charged, so I will
> go
> looking for the icon.  Consider this:  how often will a user go looking
> for the
> icon when it isn't there?  If often, then it should be there.  I am
> willing to
> bet it is high for battery sate and low for printer state, so they are not
> the same.
>
> ^CarlFK
>
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