AC not present?

Mitch Bradley wmb at laptop.org
Mon Sep 8 12:59:37 EDT 2008


Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> Well, even spelling it "external power required" is better than the 
> cryptic "AC not present".

The message was changed to "No external power" in release Q2D14 .

>
> - Bert -
>
> Am 08.09.2008 um 17:25 schrieb Eben Eliason:
>
>> I know I've said this before, but I really want to get some UI polish
>> into this part of the system.  Instead of the cryptic "AC not present"
>> we should be displaying a fullscreen graphic picturing the power cord
>> (in the style of the shutdown warnings) to make it blatantly obvious
>> what's needed.  There are certainly other cases outside the sugar
>> environment which probably need similar treatment.
>>
>> - Eben
>>
>> PS.  I know this is low priority, but I don't want it to be forgotten.
>> Perhaps if we can elaborate on the pieces which could use some UI
>> polish early on in the release cycle we can actually make some
>> improvements for 9.1.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Bastien 
>> <bastienguerry at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> "Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> n Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Bastien 
>>>> <bastienguerry at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>> | AC not present
>>>>
>>>> Plug it to power to complete the firmware upgrade step...
>>>
>>> AArghh!  Thanks.  For me "AC/DC" has never meant anything else
>>> than classical music.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Bastien
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