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Title: Battery meter design needs to make both percentage and time statistics easily accessible. Status in The Power Indicator: Fix Committed Status in “indicator-power” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: indicator-power 0.3-0ubuntu1, Ubuntu 11.10 The power menu option to "show time remaining" is not very useful. The number fluctuates way too much to be constantly visible in the menu bar and is therefore distracting. If any number should be there, the battery's percent charged won't fluctuate but will go down or up steadily based on whether the laptop is plugged in or not. In fact, the current design does not show the charge percentage at all. This is in contrast to how other OS's work. My Android phone shows me a % but does not tell me how many minutes I have left. Gnome Shell shows both the time & a percentage: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Guidelines/SystemStatus/BatteryPower Suggestions: 1. Replace Show Time Remaining with Show Percentage Remaining (I think a checkbox in Power Settings would be an even better location for this option but I believe we're hesitant to patch System Settings more than is necessary.) 2. Optionally, follow Gnome Shell's design and include the charge percentage on the battery charge line of the power menu. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Power#menu>: "If 'Show Time in Menu Bar' and/or 'Show Percentage in Menu Bar' is checked, the icon should be followed by brackets..." To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-power/+bug/811777/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
