Project Utopia : HAL & PowerManagement

[David Zeuthen]

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 07:52 +0100, David Eriksson wrote:
>On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 20:00 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
>> I've created a few pages here on the advice of DavidZ:
>> 
>> http://live.gnome.org/ProjectUtopia_2fPowerManagement
>> and 
>> http://live.gnome.org/ProjectUtopia_2fPowerManagement_2fScreenshots
>> 
>> to document the PowerManagement interface for HAL. 
>
>This may be too early, but I thought a little about the mock-up,
>thinking: "what is _really_ needed for the user to change?"

You should probably add your comments to the Wiki then, it's sort of off
topic to discuss UI here :-)

>o The UPS part could be moved to a separate configuration, not everyone
>has a UPS.

The idea was that this would only be shown if you had a UPS (but follow
up on the Wiki)

>o About the "Buttons" section. If there actually should be an UI to
>change these things, what is the alternative action if I don't mark one
>of the check boxes? To do nothing or do something else that's not
>mentioned in the dialog? Maybe a drop-down list with alternative actions
>would be easier to understand?

Follow up on the Wiki :-)

David


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