power management settings mockup

[Marco Martin]

On Saturday 13 September 2008, Matt Williams wrote:
> On Saturday 13 September 2008 14:36:21 Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:
> > On Saturday 13 September 2008 02:30:27 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > i'd like to see Riccardo's proposal on this list, we can discuss the
> > > benefits or lack thereof of it, see who is willing to actually write
> > > code for it (if anyone) and move on from there.
> >
> > There we go, sorry, I took a while, but I had to work on it with a real
> > canavas. The icons (especially brightness icons) are temprorary, as you
> > might guess. I just borrowed some from the theme. In place of the 'java'
> > icons there will be profile icons. This is the mockup for the panel
> > popup, on planar contianments there will be just the 'status' part (above
> > the line) with a little togglable button (label for it? "options..."?)
> > bottom-right which will slide out the configuration options and will make
> > the plasmoid look like the mockup for the panel (plus the toggled
> > button).
> >
> > http://files.ruphy.org/rect65593.png
> >
> > If you have any question or want to give me feedback on IRC, I'd be happy
> > to answer them or I'd appreciate to get it.
>
> I still don't like the idea of using a _progress_ bar to display the
> current CPU scaling amount. Wouldn't something like the KCapacityBar [1]
> used in the Dolphin and Konqueror directory property dialogs be more
> appropriate?
i think plasma widgets should be used as much as possible, a plasma::meter 
would be quite good in this case

Cheers,
Marco Martin

> Matt
>
> [1]
> http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdeui/html/classKCapacityBar.htm
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