GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 315954
low battery dialog (maybe?) shouldn't have title
Last modified: 2020-11-06 19:57:48 UTC
Version details: 2.12.0 Distribution/Version: Ubuntu 5.10 The alert that appears when your battery is running low needs a bit of design cleanup. 1. As described in the HIG, alerts shouldn't have titles, because they're not informative enough to consume people's time. "Battery Notice" is a good example of this. 2. The text needs shortening for people to read it. It also suggests that you "suspend your laptop", inviting the question, "From what?". I suggest: "The battery will run out in about 23 minutes. To avoid losing work, plug the computer into mains power, or save open documents and choose Hibernate or Shut Down". 3. The "OK" button should respond to Enter, not to Alt+O.
crikey! not again!
davyd: you created this dialog so please decide what you want to do about this so i can also fix bug 314812.
1. The HIG has two relevant things to say here: * alerts should not show in the tasklist unless they are unassociated with a another window * alerts should not have a title If an alert doesn't show in the tasklist and it doesn't have a title this is OK. If (as is the case with battstat) the alert is unassociated with another window it needs to show in the tasklist. Due to the lack of name it shows as a rather unsightly "untitled window". Perhaps a fix for this would be to set a different icon name than the window title but this seems a little hacky. HIG/usability folks: I need to hear some opinions on what is the right thing to do here. 2) It took us a lot of time to arrive at the current text. Davyd came up with it and thinks that it should stay as-is and I agree. In bug 314812 we've addressed the problem of the dialog offering to suspend when it's not possible (so if your laptop does not suspend you won't see this text). 3) Fixed in HEAD. I'm changing the bug summary to reflect that it is now only about point 1.
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