http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2007/03/23/creating-a-new-battery-profile/ My fiancee is like Windows Vista: Looks pretty, difficult to understand and sometimes unpredictable... Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:51:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2007/03/23/creating-a-new-battery-profile/#comment-62 Anonymous Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:23:22 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2007/03/23/creating-a-new-battery-profile/#comment-62 Ditch the popup. They should <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/11/01/922449.aspx" rel="nofollow">only be displayed when something happens that a user can respond to</a> (Windows guidelines, but they're sensible). Balloon: "Your battery meter is inaccurate" User: "So?" Popups are great and all, but their use really needs to be strictly controlled. I'd hate to see Gnome end up like Windows is. Question: If you have accurate battery readings for one battery but not the other, can't you just ignore the second battery until you have good readings? For example, suppose you can accurately predict that battery #1 is going to give you 2 hours of charge, but don't have enough information to predict battery #2 yet. In this situation, "2 hours" is at least partially accurate, as you can predict that you will get at least 2 hours of running. Or is prediction done over all batteries? Ditch the popup. They should only be displayed when something happens that a user can respond to (Windows guidelines, but they're sensible). Balloon: “Your battery meter is inaccurate” User: “So?” Popups are great and all, but their use really needs to be strictly controlled. I'd hate to see Gnome end up like Windows is. Question: If you have accurate battery readings for one battery but not the other, can't you just ignore the second battery until you have good readings? For example, suppose you can accurately predict that battery #1 is going to give you 2 hours of charge, but don't have enough information to predict battery #2 yet. In this situation, “2 hours” is at least partially accurate, as you can predict that you will get at least 2 hours of running. Or is prediction done over all batteries?

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