Review Request: Add a tooltip to battery monitor applet
Chani
chanika at gmail.com
Thu Nov 26 11:17:58 CET 2009
On November 26, 2009 02:00:17 Kåre Särs wrote:
> > On 2009-11-25 17:27:53, Cyberbeat wrote:
> > > I really like the estimated time. And it really helps. And for not
> > > being precise, it is "estimated" :) Would really like to see this in
> > > kde-4.4, and perhaps also backported to kde-4.3?
> >
> > Kåre Särs wrote:
> > I'm afraid it is a bit too late for KDE 4.4 with the hard freeze in
> > just a couple of hours, and I have not gotten a "ship it"....
> >
> > Chani Armitage wrote:
> > there wasn't a "ship it" because it turned into a "fork it in
> > playground". for the time-remaining part at least.
> >
> > as for having a tooltip in the first place... well, my battery
> > plasmoid just shows the info on hover directly, no need for a tooltip. I
> > have a large panel, though; does it still do that in small panels?
>
> I wanted to add the tool-tip to add the time-remaining part without
> touching the hover info. As the time-remaining was not wanted I'm not sure
> either if there is a need for a popup that does not give any extra
> information.
>
> I disagree about the usefulness of time-remaining, but since it is not my
> code I'll let it be.
>
> That said, would I get objections if I would fork "Battery Monitor" into a
> "Battery Time" and then later push it to kdeplasma-addons?
I don't know if it would make it into kdeplasma-addons. you can fork whatever
you like in playground, though.
perhaps you could add other statistics n'stuff too, or experiment with time
estimation methods... :)
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