Xfce4 power manager 0.6.0 RC1 released

Mike Massonnet mmassonnet at gmail.com
Fri Nov 7 21:51:01 CET 2008


Le Fri, 7 Nov 2008 11:34:21 +0100,
Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org> a écrit :

> 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.

Or move it to a "Advanced settings" tab for instance.

My 2 cents :)
Mike



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