AC not present?

Mitch Bradley wmb at laptop.org
Mon Sep 8 13:50:03 EDT 2008


Eben Eliason wrote:
> 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. 

I find it amusing that the shutdown warnings are mentioned in the same 
sentence as "blatantly obvious".


>  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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