Bug 127976

Summary:	Disk powermanagement hard to find
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	Stefan Brüns <stefan.bruens>
Component:	Usability	Assignee:	Martin Schmidkunz <mschmidkunz>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Siegfried Olschner <siegfried.olschner>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	behlert, jsrain
Version:	Beta 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	New layout of the powermanagement module in YaST "Powermanagement_customize.png": How to customize an individual power management scheme

Description Stefan Brüns 2005-10-12 21:58:16 UTC

Go to the Powermanagement module, select the scheme editing, choose a scheme, 
everything fine until here. 
 
Now select edit - you can edit the scheme name, and alter the settings for the 
cpu. But there is no hint that the next button has another page with the 
settings for cooling and disk spindown. And the second page has as "next" 
button, too, but it should be an ok button. 
 
Imho, the cpu, cooling and disk settings should be put on 3 tabs, and the 
button should be an ok button. Thus it will be clear there are three different 
devices power settings can be chosen for, these three are not interdependent, 
and the settings become valid after leaving the dialog.

Comment 1 Holger Macht 2005-10-15 21:56:09 UTC

Maybe Jiri can comment on this...

Comment 2 Holger Macht 2005-12-13 11:24:08 UTC

Sounds good to me having the settings on three or maybe only two tabs with an ok button. Jiri?

Comment 4 Siegfried Olschner 2006-12-11 14:09:31 UTC

Reorganization of usability-bug assignments.
We try to discharge the number of our bug entries in the
next weeks.
=> Reassigned to mschmidkunz

Comment 5 Martin Schmidkunz 2007-03-01 14:47:32 UTC

IMHO "Add" and "Edit" and  in the Power Management Dialog means the same. I have though about a possible solution how to present the power management:

* I changed the wording "AC settings" into "Power Supply" which might be more intuitive to non-technical users.
* "Power Supply" and "Battery" are separated through tabs
* The three commonly used power schemes can be selected via radio buttons
* If a user wants to configure an individual power scheme he can do that via "Other" > "Customize".
* Customize opens the dialog that is shown in "powermanagement_customize.png"
* "Suspend Permissions" are included in the main dialog page, which saves us one dialog page.

What do you think about that?

Comment 6 Martin Schmidkunz 2007-03-01 14:50:11 UTC

Created attachment 121804 [details]
New layout of the powermanagement module in YaST

Comment 7 Martin Schmidkunz 2007-03-01 14:50:57 UTC

Created attachment 121805 [details]
"Powermanagement_customize.png": How to customize an individual power management scheme

Comment 8 Forgotten User ZhJd0F0L3x 2007-03-01 19:40:47 UTC

We should not put too much work into those dialogs, since they will probably be removed from YaST anyway.

Comment 9 Martin Schmidkunz 2007-03-05 09:35:25 UTC

Are there any concrete plans for that?
Is there anyone who can tell me, if there are other dialogs which will be probably be removed from YaST?

Comment 10 Martin Schmidkunz 2007-04-23 23:48:25 UTC

ping, anyone? :-)

Comment 11 Martin Schmidkunz 2007-06-08 13:28:06 UTC

Is there any need to continue working on the power management module?

Comment 12 Martin Schmidkunz 2007-06-08 13:28:30 UTC

Is there any need to continue working on the power management module?

Comment 13 Martin Schmidkunz 2007-07-26 10:41:08 UTC

If there is any need of further work on the power management module, please contact me.
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