Comment 7 for bug 399492

Thanks, I'm going to start working on this in two phases, first the
text then the icons. This is because I think we may be able to get the
text approved upstream in GPM, but the icons may be harder to get
approved in GNOME. I'll post the PPA and branch for the text changes
when I get to it.

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Steve Dodier<email address hidden> wrote:
> I think I forgot to mention that there also are -plugged icons (they're
> not in the video). The complete list of icons is :
>
> notification-battery-000
> notification-battery-000-plugged
> notification-battery-010
> notification-battery-010-plugged
> [...]
> notification-battery-090
> notification-battery-090-plugged
> notification-battery-100
> notification-battery-100-plugged
>
> --
> Feature request : Possible improvements for notifications
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/399492
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>
> Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> 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.
>