power management settings mockup

[Celeste Lyn Paul]

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