Bugzilla – Bug 127976
Disk powermanagement hard to find
Last modified: 2007-07-26 10:41:08 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.
Maybe Jiri can comment on this...
Sounds good to me having the settings on three or maybe only two tabs with an ok button. Jiri?
Reorganization of usability-bug assignments. We try to discharge the number of our bug entries in the next weeks. => Reassigned to mschmidkunz
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?
Created attachment 121804 [details] New layout of the powermanagement module in YaST
Created attachment 121805 [details] "Powermanagement_customize.png": How to customize an individual power management scheme
We should not put too much work into those dialogs, since they will probably be removed from YaST anyway.
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?
ping, anyone? :-)
Is there any need to continue working on the power management module?
If there is any need of further work on the power management module, please contact me. Cu