Re: Dock padding_pixels suggestion

> All the semi-tolerable laptops I've seen are upwards
> from 1500e

The S73 series BenQ JoyBook I have mentioned is priced
around 1000.- USD in Indonesia, ergo, less than 1000.-
euro. (And trust me: it's more than "semi-tolerable.")


> for faster boot process

I am on runit (daemontools alike--just better IMO) for
70-80%. (100% runit/daemontools starts to become too
*convoluted*; plus: I LOVE *BSD like init-scripts, their
clarity and manageability.)


> I actually spin down two of the three disks of my
> tabletop computer (w/ noflushd), because they're used
> only infrequently and eat a lot of electricity.

It's a trade-off: non notebook hard disks are not built
for frequent power off: the electricity then eaten for
manufacturing new- /recycling old disks.


> And the Ion statusbar isn't sufficient for that?

the battery status is, e.g., something that looks:

                         charged: 100%
     |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

or 
                      discharging: 72%
     ||||||||||||||||||||||||||-------

or
                         charging: 20%
     |||||||--------------------------

(with "charged: 100%" etc. written in, say, 

     -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

and the scale written in green, or red, depending from
the status.)

Why do you think such a thing, and others similar,
need to be put in the statusbar?

People can--from the physiology--separate *cognitively*
around five items.

And from the physiology again: the retina is--given some
generic grade of alertness--more reactive for things that
move/shift/flip/change... on the borders/sides than in
the center [guess why]. With xosd I can freely use four,
reasonably two, sides of a screen. And don't have to
bother on what happens beneath it.

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