On Friday 12 September 2008 11:21:46 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Friday 12 September 2008, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > and code duplication. http://reviewboard.vidsolbach.de/r/182/ -- I hope > > this gets in quickly (hint hint hint). > > heh; yes, this should go in.... you already marked it as Ship It! after > all. > > > The configuration dialog should make it easy to > > - know about battery charge level and performance profile > > - dim / undim display (*1) > > - stop the machine from suspending when idle (*2) > > > > So that's what I'm working on as part of my > > systray-like-functionality-crusade right now. I'd like to get feedback on > > +1 > > > (*2) There's an 'inhibit suspend' action in the powermanagement FDO dbus > > spec which prevents the system from suspending after a certain idle time, > > that's useful when you're doing a presentation or watching a movie and > > you don't want to have your system switching off. Some apps will > > implement this themselves (imagine dragonplayer or kpresenter calling > > inhibit suspend through dbus when in fullscreen mode). > > this needs to be added to KPresentationControls then. do you have some code > i can look at? > > > You've made it until here, you've earned a screenshot :-) I've also > > attached the ui file I used for your futzing. > > comments on the UI: > > * "Inhibit suspend after idle time" is pretty complex. how about reversing > the logic with "Suspend automatically when idle"? > > * Current Brightness should be "Screen Brightness" imo, and the label > should be next to the slider.
This or Brightness, but I think Screen brightness is best. > > * Battery Charge Level could just be Battery (it's obviously what it means > =) and should be to the left of the progress bar +1 on label and position > > * System Performance Profile could just be Performance Profile > > * the progress bar for performance needs a label, which should be to the > left of it Ah hah, I wasn't sure what the bar was for. > * the progress bars should appear at the top of the dialog together with a > heading of "Status" perhaps, with the settings below that with a headng of > "Settings"? Isn't the bar for performance related to the performance profile in some way? Or does the relationship not matter in this case? > * all labels should be right aligned, and widgets left align, ala the HIG > > if you want help doing this, let me know. i don't want to steal your fun > for no reason though ;) -- Celeste Lyn Paul KDE Usability Project usability.kde.org _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
