Review Request: Add a tooltip to battery monitor applet

[Aaron Seigo]

> On 2009-11-25 18:37:46, Andrew Coles wrote:
> > Proof-reading:
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> > 1) Change 'Estimated time remaining %1' to 'Estimated time remaining: %1'.  The other items in the tool-tip separate the label from the data using a colon (e.g. Charging: 20% charged), so the time remaining needs to do so too for consistency.
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> > 2) In the case of less than an hour of battery life left, I'd recommend:
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> >        content += i18np("Estimated time remaining: 1 minute", "Estimated time remaining: %1 minutes", m_minutes);
> > 
> >    ...as this is clearer than, say, "Estimated time remaining: 0:22".
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> Kåre Särs wrote:
>     Those are good points. Lets see if the patch gets support. If it gets the support I'll make a new patch with those changes.

my original comment has not changed. the position hasn't changed in the last year, in fact. the estimated time is a bullshit number far too often, putting such numbers in our primary UI is an awesome way to teach the user to form a relationship of distrust with the system, there is a % capacity level, most other devices i have in the house here that show battery status (which is quite a few) don't show such estimated time information either (ranging from various game consoles to phones to portable devices to laptops; in fact, it's mostly the latter that tries to do this).

so .. tooltip == good, estimated time left == no.


- Aaron


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On 2009-11-01 09:34:16, Kåre Särs wrote:
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> (Updated 2009-11-01 09:34:16)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Summary
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> This path adds a tool-tip for the battery-monitor applet. The tool-tip contains charge percentage and estimated time left.
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> Diffs
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>   trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/generic/applets/battery/battery.h 1041319 
>   trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/generic/applets/battery/battery.cpp 1041319 
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> Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/2010/diff
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> Testing
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> I'm not running trunk, so I had to comment out the setStatus() functions (not done in the patch).
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> Thanks,
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> Kåre
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