some quick notes on xfce4-power-manager 0.6.4

[Mike Massonnet]

Le Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:43:55 +0200,
Jari Rahkonen <jari.rahkonen at pp1.inet.fi> a écrit :

> Ali Abdallah kirjoitti:
> > Mike Massonnet wrote:
> >> Le Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:30:54 +0100,
> >> Ali Abdallah <aliov at xfce.org> a écrit :
> >>
> >>  
> >>> Mike Massonnet wrote:
> >>>    
> >>>> What I was trying to say is that the GtkStatusIcon specifies
> >>>> what it can be used for. And for sake of consistency, you must
> >>>> not try to do something different, otherwise it wouldn't provide
> >>>> an activate and popop-menu signal, but something like in
> >>>> GtkWidget button-press-event and button-release-event.
> >>>>
> >>>>         
> >>> Just for information, the current development version of gtk+
> >>> provides button-press-event and button-release-event.
> >>>     
> >>
> >> Aha, nice. This does leave room in for middle clicks! Still,
> >> question is, what should you display on activate signal.
> >>
> >> Jarno suggests a menu, but for how many items? only preferences...
> >> well then you can display it directly imho. You could add several
> >> common menu items instead, and drop the less common menu items
> >> from the right click menu context.
> 
> Jarno?

Oops :-) Sorry, and hell, no, not Jarno.

Mike

> Close enough I guess. :) In any case, as I admitted to Auke in
> an earlier mail, a different menu depending on which mouse button the
> user clicks might indeed be confusing and inconsistent. I should have
> thought about this before making the suggestion.
> 
> > Yes nice, but i'm not going to depend on gtk 2.16 for that, just for
> > future enhancements.
> > 
> >> As of my first use of the pm, I was disoriented that a click
> >> didn't do anything, so I right clicked it and... well I chosen to
> >> open the preferences dialog.
> >>
> >>   
> > I'll add something here no the "activate" signals, probably
> > information about the current status and/or the settings dialog.
> 
> My vote goes for battery status rather than the settings dialog if you
> feel something needs to pop up, but I'm sure I've made that clear by
> now. :)
> 
> - Jari
> 
> >> Mike
> >>   
> > 
> > Thanks for all the suggestions,

Thanks for taking care of them ;)

Mike