G-p-m hding while on AC

Andy Somerville andy.somerville at gmail.com
Thu Mar 9 01:45:51 GMT 2006


To jump on this agreement bandwagon...

On 3/8/06, Lakin Wecker <lakin.wecker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Users are accustomed to many types of portable devices which run on
> batteries: cell-phones, PDAs, music players, and laptops.  Knowing the state
> of the battery is an important part of using the device.

... and at least for the ones I have, every PDA, music player,
cellphone, and other operating system I run on my laptop all maintain
a power-status icon even when plugged in. Its tradition, and
consistancey (internal and external) is at least 50% of usablity.


    Andy



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