Comment 25 for bug 399492

I'm just working on the strings and not touching the icons yet. This
is because the strings patch will go upstream and the icons/notify-osd
patch should be done within Ubuntu. I'm getting close to finishing it
and sending it upstream.

Ubuntu used to have it's own notify-osd patch, but Martin Pitt has
disabled the notify-osd patch for GPM
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/406396)
since upstream has changed how they handle notifications.

The notify-osd patch needs to be rewritten, see bug #406396. Would
either of you be able to work on that side of it? I took a stab at it
here: bug 390669, but that patch was written against 2.27.1, I updated
it to 2.27.2, and soon we will have 2.27.3.

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Steve Dodier<email address hidden> wrote:
> @Mac
>
> Scott is writing a first patch without the notification-* icons for
> inclusion upstream.
>
> The problem with brightness notifications comes from global breakage of the
> new g-p-m :P
>
> --
> Feature request : Possible improvements for notifications
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/399492
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> Status in Gnome Powermanager: Confirmed
> Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu: In Progress
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm writing this feature request because I believe power notifications can be greatly improved by being simplified to the strict necessary.
>
> I began a discussion about this subject, that you can find on the Ayatana ML ( https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/msg00146.html ), and I ended up drafting new triggered and non-triggered notifications, as follows (preview of the result here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkdaiXXcv8w ) :
>
> Icon info
> Title "Power information"
> Body "Computer is running on battery power
>  Laptop battery 1 hour 45 minutes remaining (72.0%)"
>
> Becomes
>
> Icon notification-battery-070
> Title "1:45 hours remaining"
>
> I'll include a file (the shell script used for the video above) with many more examples, and proposals of improvement for the "battery low" notifications too. The icons are created and uploaded into the Human icon theme. If needed, they can be put in notify-osd. They basically convey the % left and plugged / not plugged information to make the text part lighter (images can hold much more meaning than words in some cases).
>
> Obviously I think this is implementable only as an Ubuntu patch (at least till the notification-* icons get some recognition outside of notify-osd / ubuntu), but I still think it's worth a try as it makes notifications _really_ easier to read.
>
> Voilà. If you need any other information about this feature request, please let me know ASAP. I really hope this can be done for Karmic.
>