Created attachment 172548 [details] Battery Critical notification SUMMARY I have a couple of suggestions for improving the current Battery Critical notification - see Expected Result. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Use a battery-powered device 2. Allow your battery to deplete to 5% 3. Observe the Battery Critical notification OBSERVED RESULT Notification says: Battery Critical (5% Remaining). Battery level critical. Your computer will enter hibernation mode in 60 seconds. The notification will be static over those 60 seconds (unless you plug a power lead in, in which case it will disappear, as expected.) EXPECTED RESULT I suggest that the "60 seconds" part of the message be turned into a countdown that updates once per second, so the user can see exactly how long they've got to rush for a power lead. Also, "Your computer will enter hibernation mode" could be less jargon-y as "Your computer will hibernate", especially as the button below says "Hibernate Now" not "Enter Hibernation Mode Now". Possibly it shouldn't say "Your computer", maybe just "The computer" or "This computer" - I'm not sure if there's a HIG for this. Also also, you may not need the repetition of "Battery level critical" in the body, as it's already in the header, especially on a message you want to read quickly. As always, I suggest a usability expert should take a look at the wording for this rather than just taking my suggestions! SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240811 KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.5.0 Qt Version: 6.7.2 Kernel Version: 6.10.3-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11
Good points. The text changes are simple, I'll do those. As for a countdown, I'm not sure how to do that technically, but I *think* it's possible. It might have be implemented with an actual progress bar.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/powerdevil/-/merge_requests/412
Git commit aed6c50a31808eed35563df73482035e32369af0 by Nate Graham. Committed on 13/08/2024 at 13:47. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. Tweak notification text to be more user-friendly and less jargonistic Some of the notification labels suffered a bit from excessive wordiness, repetition, and jargon. This commit cleans them up to be more HIG-compliant by rephrasing some things: - Don't repeat the title in the body text. - Minimize or eliminate the words "you" and "your", which sound awkward or accusatory in English. - Use the term "system" instead of "computer", because not all systems are computers (e.g. phones using PlaMo have Powerdevil). - Use the term "power cord" instead of "AC adapter", because it's more common and also more accurate since not all power cords do electrical rectification (e.g. a USB charger plugged into a car's 12-volt socket). M +9 -9 daemon/powerdevilcore.cpp M +2 -2 powerdevil.notifyrc https://invent.kde.org/plasma/powerdevil/-/commit/aed6c50a31808eed35563df73482035e32369af0