Hi Kubuntu developers and friends (especially those with laptops),<br>do you like the current way powermanager is informing the user about power cord being plugged out? <br><br>I have thought about this particular pop-up the other day and I realised the following (it's all my personal opinion):
<br> * that this particular pop-up appears too often for me<br> * that I completely ignore it now<br> * that I feel that the change of the battery tray icon is the amount of attention I need (compare with knetworkmanager - when the network goes down, only the icon gets changed)
<br><br>Pop-up windows are and always were a very aggresive way of getting attention. IMHO pop-ups should be used only if there is an event the user himself wants to be informed about. A bad habit from Microsoft Windows XP is to pop-up an informational bubble even if the original action is triggered by the user (infamous example - a user inserts a removable disc in the USB port). I think this is a very similar case.
<br><br>Sebastian Kügler (sebas) argued with me that this pop-up informs the user about the powerstate change, not the removal of the cord itself. That is certainly true, but does the common user want to be informed about it? I don't think that the common user cares about the powerstate change. I think he wants his laptop to drain as little power as possible by default. If he wants more power, he can request it by clicking on the battery icon.
<br><br> Note that I don't argue about the "low battery" pop-up - that is super useful and out of the question. The "cord plugged out" and "cord plugged in" are the ones I mean.<br><br>Back to my first question: do you like those pop-ups? Do you feel that they are useful to you, do you consider them useful every time you see them? Please try to think like a common user, not like a skilled developer! :o) (but I know, that's close to impossible)
<br><br>So what do you think?<br><br>Martin "mhb" Böhm<br>