From kde-core-devel  Wed Sep 23 04:08:34 2009
From: Chani <chanika () gmail ! com>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:08:34 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Turn Powerdevil suspend notification into a dialog
Message-Id: <200909222108.40429.chanika () gmail ! com>
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On September 22, 2009 18:22:06 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On September 22, 2009, David Nolden wrote:
> > For sure, the user feels less confused when he's disturbed by a dialog,
> >  then when he's disturbed by the shutdown of his computer.
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> again, where's the evidence that this is even happening?
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> what i've been hearing from users and seeing while observing usage:
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> * the power notifications happen too often already ("Critical" power level
>  is a bit too arbitrary on many systems right now)

my favourite: getting a notification to tell me that *I* changed the power=
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profile. :P spam like that makes it easier to miss the critical notificatio=
ns.

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> * that the powering down notification doesn't last long enough (easy to
>  solve)
yep
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> * the the buttons are too small to hit in a short period of time (also ea=
sy
>  to solve)
yep

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> where is the "my computer turns off and i didn't know it because the
> notification didn't let me know this"?

I think people are smart enough to figure out (and be grateful) that their=
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laptop shut itself down because it was about to run out of power. it's more=
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about the annoyance of occasionally wanting to tell it not to do that and n=
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being able to do so before it's too late. which an improved notification co=
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solve.

> > But the result would be something similar to a modal dialog
> > anyway, as it _must_ disturb the users workflow.
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> you don't need a modal anything to get user attention. and no, you do NOT
>  need to FORCE a disturbance upon the user. i want to know when i need to
>  take action, but i don't want to have what i'm doing interrupted forceab=
ly
>  for that information to be passed on. the only things that piss me off a=
re
>  things i can't control, such as disk checks on start up (as one example).
>  i am not unique in this way.

psst. reiserfs. disk checks are quick and relatively painless :) I didn't h=
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an ext3 partition until I got this laptop, and I was amazed people put up w=
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its slow fsck time...

also, another reason modal is evil: I'm typing. chances are I'll hit spaceb=
ar=20
before I notice that the focus is elsewhere. I <3 kde's focus-stealing=20
prevention :)

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> > Maybe a very prominent
> > colored, flashing and non-disappearing popup somewhere near the panel
> > would work as well.
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> well, colored and flashing is probably unnecessary. non-disappearing is
>  easy; large is easy, too.

yay easy. so, someone should go do it. :)
I wouldn't mind some red on a critical thing like this... flashing is evil,=
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though.


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