Xfce4 power manager 0.6.0 RC1 released

[Ali Abdallah]

Enrico Tröger wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 03:39:06 -0800, "Brian J. Tarricone"
> <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:23:02 +0100 Ali Abdallah wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> 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.
>>>       
>> I'd suggest doing away with the governors concept in the UI entirely.
>> You can have a few different options:
>>
>> Best performance
>> Good performance
>> Good battery savings
>> Best power savings
>>
>> (The middle two aren't very good; this is just an idea.)  ... and map
>> them to (respectively):
>>     
>
> If you do so, please provide the mapping information also in some way.
> Brian is right that it might confuse not so experienced users
> confronting with CPU governors but at the same time the above 'meta'
> descriptions confuse more experienced users who expect the governor
> names. Some of us are not only noobs :).
> IMO sometimes people want to hide too much from a UI and make it _too_
> easy (hello Gnome...)
>
> After all, yes, it'd be best if there wouldn't be a need for such an
> option at all but well, AFAIK this is not yet the case.
>
>
>   

I'll change  it this evening to something more intuitive, and removing 
the userspace governor.


> Regards,
> Enrico
>
>   

Thanks for all the suggestions.

Best Regards,
Ali.