** Description changed: Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager I have a laptop with a large battery. When GPM gets to the point where it uses battery-020, the applet/indicator in the panel makes me think I'm going to run out of batter imminently (e.g. next 15-30 minutes). Indeed, on another laptop with a smaller batter, I usually get this when I have only ~20-30 minutes left. But on this laptop, if I click on the indicator, it tells me I have 1 hour, 30 minutes left, which is about 3 times longer than I want to go before getting notified that I'm about to run out of battery. So there are several solutions I can think of, and I'm sure there are more: 1) GPM ships with an orange icon for battery-020, and a red icon for battery-000. You could just say it is a problem with the icon theme. The problem is that this is not good for a lot of more symbolic (at least in the panel) icon themes (e.g. ubuntu-mono, elementary). 2) Somehow implement it so that the percent at which it turns red is configurable. (Easily configurable, not hacking the icon theme configurable). 3) Somehow implement it so that if you get to a certain amount of battery time left (ideally also user-configurable, but it doesn't have to be here, unlike in #2), /then/ the icon turns red. I like this solution out of all the ones I see. 4) Something else I didn't think of. :) For solutions 2 and 3, the icon spec for gpm could merely be changed to have gpm-battery-[01][02468]0 /and/ something like gpm- battery-[01][02468]0-warning. The gpm-battery-* could be normal, and the gpm-battery-*-warning could be the red ones that get displayed when you start to run out. + ===== + ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: gnome-power-manager 2.32.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44-generic-pae 2.6.35.10 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic-pae i686 NonfreeKernelModules: wl Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Feb 4 14:57:17 2011 GnomeSessionIdleInhibited: No GnomeSessionInhibitors: None GnomeSessionSuspendInhibited: No InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007) MachineType: Dell Inc. Studio 1737 ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-25-generic-pae root=UUID=076f8d28-c4ba-458d-be88-d1311ab34135 ro quiet splash ProcEnviron: - PATH=(custom, user) - LANG=en_US.utf8 - SHELL=/bin/bash + PATH=(custom, user) + LANG=en_US.utf8 + SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager dmi.bios.date: 11/25/2009 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A08 dmi.board.name: 0P792H dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.board.version: A08 dmi.chassis.type: 8 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.version: A08 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA08:bd11/25/2009:svnDellInc.:pnStudio1737:pvrA08:rvnDellInc.:rn0P792H:rvrA08:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrA08: dmi.product.name: Studio 1737 dmi.product.version: A08 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
** Summary changed: - GPM indicator applet icon give false alarm re: battery + indicator icon gives user false sense of alarm -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/713356 Title: indicator icon gives user false sense of alarm -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
