Xfce4 power manager 0.6.0 RC1 released

Ali Abdallah aliov at xfce.org
Fri Nov 7 12:23:02 CET 2008


Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Am Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:26:51 +0100
> schrieb Ali Abdallah <aliov at xfce.org>:
>
>   
>>> 3. I'm seeing radio buttons labelled with cpu governour names. I
>>> wonder if it is all that helpful, as opposed to describing strings.
>>> I would think it would make it more understandable to less
>>> knowledgable users and still be obvious enough for those who do
>>> know. ^^ Granted, others might see that different.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> yes, but powersave,performance and ondemand are clear i guess, only 
>> conservative and userspace aren't understandable, but i don't know
>> what to put here.
>>     
>
> You can't expect the user to know anything about how CPU governours
> work, neither what the terms powersafe, performance and ondemand mean.
> So if you want the UI to be useful for everyone you'll have to describe
> these terms in some way.
>
>   - Jannis
>   
>   

Can be as a tooltip on each radio button, what do you think, if not i 
have to find a clear way to show these governors.

Ali.




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