From kde-panel-devel Sat Oct 31 04:21:34 2009 From: Chani Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:21:34 +0000 To: kde-panel-devel Subject: Re: Review Request: Add a tooltip to battery monitor applet Message-Id: <200910302121.42393.chanika () gmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-panel-devel&m=125696290613214 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--===============0734655301==" --===============0734655301== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1552880.7NrC5JIket"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --nextPart1552880.7NrC5JIket Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On October 30, 2009 18:24:03 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On October 30, 2009, Chani wrote: > > percentages are the bogus number :P it's like giving a latitude and > > longitude instead of a street address. >=20 > except my street address doesn't change just because i drive there in a c= ar > instead of walk. >=20 > a more accurate analogy would be offering a travel time ("travel for 13 > minutes, take a left and travel for 14 more") instead of a street address. > what if there's traffic or i speed? what if i'm biking instead of driving? > what if i'm walking? damn metaphors... ;P maybe that's part of the problem here, actually. I *do* often give and use= =20 directions in units of time instead of distance. if you tell me to go 50=20 meters north I'll end up in *completely* the wrong place (has happened, lon= g=20 argument ensued about who was using silly units), but walking for half an h= our=20 or taking a 10-minute bus journey works for me, so long as I have a few=20 landmarks to keep the error under control. >=20 > giving numbers that are "guestimates" which is what these numbers can > probably ever be is a great way to reinforce in people that "computers t= ry > to be smart but are fragile and wrong, especially mine" which IME is a > huge reason why people like them less than they should. >=20 I still don't believe people dislike their computer because it tries to hel= p=20 them and isn't always right. everyone I've talked to *likes* the time=20 estimate. we also provide time estimates for downloads, even though those can easily = be=20 wrong too (especially with torrents). and if the time estimate is really bad you can always turn it off. oh wait,= it=20 was off by default iirc. in any case... we could argue this until we both expire - or someone could= =20 fork the plasmoid and provide an alternative for people who find the time=20 estimate easier to work with. :) =2D-=20 This message brought to you by eevil bananas and the number 3. www.chani3.com --nextPart1552880.7NrC5JIket Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkrru04ACgkQeGbAwpIS3GwuBACeKI0SLZYVcNQH8EQ8Tw7D2T40 YZAAnj2FCJzPEFXNa5bwvecN8cT0Vb3l =BLv3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1552880.7NrC5JIket-- --===============0734655301== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel --===============0734655301==--