I'm out of the office until 1st August.

On 2 May 2011, at 21:57, SAR <629...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:

> If we're talking about it saying;
>
> Time to full
> Time to empty
>
> Mine both say 0 Seconds
>
> We still have a bug here in Natty Narwhal too with all this battery
> stuff...
>
> THANKS
>
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> Title:
>  "Laptop battery (estimating...)" -estimating what?
>
> Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
>  Opinion
> Status in Indicator Applet:
>  Invalid
> Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu:
>  Won't Fix
>
> Bug description:
>  The drop-down menu for the gnome-power-manager battery status menu
>  says "Laptop battery (estimating...)"
>
>  At a minimum this be fixed to read "Laptop batter (estimating
>  time...)" or "Laptop battery (estimating battery life...)".
>
>  Ideally if the remaining battery *time* is not known (because less
>  than sufficient datapoints have been collected to enable estimation)
>  then the percentage should be displayed in-lieu.  The percentage is
>  already available and is used to drive the indicator-applet icon
>  itself.
>
>  The current implementation is specified by:
>
>    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BatteryStatusMenu#Items
>
>  but because the "estimating..." text can exist for days-on-end  
> (nearly
>  a week in the case of this computer) it probably needs a slight tweak
>  or design addition to take account of the time estimation not being
>  available for long periods of time.
>
>  See bug #629258 for previous (lukewarm) discussions on the lower- 
> stack
>  issues.  This two bugs might want re-splitting/sorting again based on
>  those that relate to the chrono estimate not being known, and those
>  that relate to the pointless display of that unknown data for long
>  periods of time.

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