HAL FDI matched Buttons

[David Zeuthen]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 17:56 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> I disagree here. I assume that you have not looked deeply into power
> management issues.

I assume you have not looked too deeply into good user interfaces. I can
recommend reading this document

 http://ometer.com/free-software-ui.html

And I argue that only when you know the UI you want you can start
designing the middleware like HAL.

> Well, i'd leave this up to the user. There are lots of users that like
> to have the knobs to tune (and i like it also to be able to squeeze the
> additional half hour of battery lifetime out if i am on the train and
> sacrifice some performance for it). Not everything likes "dumb users can
> only handle one knob" interfaces.

Please explain where these knobs are in the mainstream operating systems
like Windows XP and Mac OS X.

Cheers,
David