#8424 NORM 9.1.0: Sugar control panel's Network > Wireless Radio checkbox does nothing if Power > Extreme power management checked

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#8424: Sugar control panel's Network > Wireless Radio checkbox does nothing if
Power > Extreme power management checked
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           Reporter:  skierpage  |       Owner:  erikos       
               Type:  defect     |      Status:  new          
           Priority:  normal     |   Milestone:  9.1.0        
          Component:  sugar      |     Version:  not specified
         Resolution:             |    Keywords:  cjbfor9.1.0  
        Next_action:  never set  |    Verified:  0            
Deployment_affected:             |   Blockedby:               
           Blocking:             |  
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Comment(by gnu):

 The two options are not the same -- Extreme Power Management also disables
 the USB bus, as well as turning off the radio (and maybe in future doing
 other things).

 So this ticket is correct, but possibly irrelevant.  It should be possible
 to turn the radio
 off with both "Radio Off" and "Extreme Power Management".  If either of
 them is set, the radio
 will be off.  There's no real need to link them, or to grey out "Radio
 Off" if "Extreme Power
 Management" is set.

 (As an aside, I find the whole idea of greying-out items and making them
 unresponsive to be one of the real terrible ideas in user interface
 design, courtesy of Apple.  If something is grey and you click on it, it
 should TELL YOU WHY IT'S GREY so you can fix it.  If you didn't want to do
 that thing, you wouldn't have clicked on it.  In command-line interfaces,
 you can order the machine to do something invalid, and it will report why
 it can't.  In grey GUIs, it's like 1984, there's simply no way to phrase
 that question, nor get an answer.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8424#comment:5>
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