** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Triaged
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[lucid] current battery charge not easily accessable
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I applied this patch (thanks Tom)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/539912/comments/5
and it does help. Now a click on the battery icon reveals the percent charge.
It is very important to me because a 'full charge' is anything above 70%, and
the battery time
Awesome... Now I'm never sure how much time or % my battery has, I need
to do like 3 clicks to find the info, and somehow sometimes it is not
accurate, this is the first OS that make people click around to find
info about the battery, Why change it from the old one when the old one
was working
If occupying too much space is the issue (which I can't really see), just
change to something like:
~ 3 hours 15 minutes remaining (100%)
See screenshot.
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And the time left can vary strongly depending on what you are doing -
e.g. using mobile USB internet stick takes quite a lot.
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The info should be displayed as a tooltip, instead of having to click on
the icon to see time left and then click outside to dismiss the menu.
Percentage should always be visible, as time left can vary wildly when
using old batteries.
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I would also prefer percentage to time, if there's only room for one. It
would also be nice to get the info with just a mouse hover over the icon
in the panel, as it was before.
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I can't believe that they got rid of battery charge percentage in the
menu bar completely. Bad enough that I can't just hover over the icon
anymore to get the battery's status - now I have to click it in order to
get information that's less useful to me than the actual percentage was.
Tom Jaeger,
Some people prefer time (like me) when the battery is discharging and
percent when on mains, and some people prefer percentage all the time.
It must be possible to have both as options!
Does the battery actually stop charging when it reaches 100% or does the
mains cable constantly charge the
i'd also really like to have my percentage back -- time estimates are
extremely unreliable on my laptop.
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I've attached a patch that adds the battery percentage when it is
useful. I've also built the package which is temporarily available in
my PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~thjaeger/+archive/ppa/+packages
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I don't trust the time estimate, I'd much rather see the percentage, so
I too vote for bringing back the percentage!
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I use percentage all the time to know the state of my battery - hours
only means something if your computer's workload is fairly constant.
Mine fluxes wildly between almost zero (Internet browsing) and 100%
(encoding video and audio) and percentage lets me work out how fast it's
dropping. Please
We just removed the percentage from the menu deliberately, because the
menu was far too wide with the extra text. This could probably do with
some more thought though
** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Wishlist
** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
Yeah, there's more obvious ways of shortening the menu text, like
writing 1:50 instead of 1 hour and 50 minutes or dropping Laptop
battery altogether.
On 03/16/2010 06:11 PM, Chris Coulson wrote:
We just removed the percentage from the menu deliberately, because the
menu was far too wide with
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