Powerdevil notifications

[Scott Kitterman]

On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 20:17:44 -0400 Yuriy Kozlov <yuriy.kozlov at gmail.com> wrote:
>2009/9/9 Aurélien Gâteau <aurelien.gateau at canonical.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> As you probably know (at least if you are using KDE4 on a laptop),
>> Powerdevil shows a notification when you are running out of power and it
>> is about to suspend/hibernate/shutdown the computer.
>>
>> This notification provides an action to cancel the suspend process. This
>> is the only notification I found within KDE which could cause a real
>> problem when using Ayatana notifications.  Gnome-power-manager used a
>> similar notification, and the notification was turned into a dialog, the
>> argument being that the program is about to do something very drastic,
>> so it is OK to show a dialog in this situation.
>>
>> I would like to make a similar change in Powerdevil.  I think this
>> change would be a good idea even when using regular KDE notifications
>> (there has been some discussion on the subject on kde-core-devel@, with
>> mixed opinions, but I think it could be upstreamed).  I attached a
>> mock-up of the dialog I would like to implement.  What do you think
>> about this?
>>
>> Aurelien
>>
>
>I am for this becoming a dialog.  When it has come up, I never seemed
>to get down there in time.  Though I thought I did -- it seemed more
>like the button just didn't do anything!  Regardless, it's an urgent
>message and something will most certainly be interrupting my work in
>10 seconds if I don't act on it, so it should be a dialog.
>
I agree it can be a little tough to get to.

If it's a dialogue, won't it still be there after after resume?  I'd find that out of place/annoying.

Wouldn't it be easier/better to just extend the notification timeot so it lasts the full 10 seconds until the suspend?

Scott K