From kde-core-devel  Wed Sep 23 20:25:09 2009
From: Marco Martin <notmart () gmail ! com>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:25:09 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Turn Powerdevil suspend notification into a dialog
Message-Id: <200909232225.09840.notmart () gmail ! com>
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=125373735925481

On Wednesday 23 September 2009, Chani wrote:
> > btw, the most common response to "you have no battery left" seems to be
> > to plug your computer in if there is power nearby or to shut down the
> > system at that point. so if power devil doesn't stop it's "i'm going to
> > suspend" when the power is plugged in, that would be quite unexpected for
> > the user and a common failure scenario in that case. which is to say,
> > that in the small % of cases where this notification is needed one of the
> > two most common operations will prevent any interaction from being needed
> > if power devil does it "right". that means giving enough time to get a
> > power cord and plug it in and auto- aborting when power returns.
>
> that's a very good point. the last time I forgot to plug in, I dived for
> the power cable first and looked for the notification second - by which
> time it was too late. :)
> it seems so obvious now that simply plugging in the power should be a clear
> indicator that I don't want it to shut down.
>
>
> so:
> -abort the countdown if power is restored (assuming this feature isn't
> already there)
> -make the timeout longer so I've got time to stop panicking and do
> something about it (yeah, I've seen that notification and gone stupid and
> not clicked the button just because I'm frozen with panic).
> -make the notification stay there
> -have a nice big button so that it's easier to hit
> -change something to make it more noticable (size, colour, *something*...
> note that this shouldn't be a special hack for powerdevil, it should be
> something done to any notification that has highest priority (do we have
> API for saying how important a notification is yet?))

don't think so.
what i would do, is having KNotifications of the same category of 
KNotificationItems: Application, Network, System, Hardware
 the systray could represent is a slighltly different way the different 
category, even if it's just bold text or no autohide and the systray could be 
configured to show certain kinds not others..

> hmm. random thought - it'd be nice if I could put not just kopete but my
> whole computer in a "do not disturb" mode, where the only notifications
> were critical ones. I see in the systray config we have applications vs
> downloads, but nothing about importance.


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Marco Martin