https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445965

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--- Comment #6 from John <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Rafael from comment #4)
> So in summary, we'd have two or three charging profiles:
> - battery longevity
> - max charge, once off (goes back to longevity once plugged)
> - max charge, continuous (doesn't switch to battery longevity)

This seems like the ideal case - I often want to "boost charge" the computer -
sometimes only with a few minutes notice. E.g. I get called out to a site from
the office. Flipping to "full charge" mode for a few minutes to fill the
battery would be convenient. In this case (max charge one off) is appropriate.

However, sometimes I'm in an environment where I want to charge to 100% always,
like when travelling and the next access to power is uncertain. So even when
you get AC, you don't want to reset to battery-longevity mode.

You could imagine a fourth mode: full charge until power restored for X hours
(a simple "smart" way to handle a part of
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=443761, perhaps)

In either case, clicking though to the settings and fiddling with them is a bit
annoying and easy to forget to restore.

A fully-featured UI for this might be:

 - List of modes (e.g. the set of three/four above)
 - Each mode has:
    - Two threshold values
    - The mode to return to when the AC power is next restored, or "stay in
this mode forever"
    -  the timeout for the mode change if one is set

Alternatively, keep it simpler and have it more like:

 - Battery longevity mode thresholds
 - Battery full charge thresholds
 - Optional timeout value for going back to longevity mode
 - Mode: 
   - longevity always
   - full charge once and back to longevity on next power after timeout
   - full charge always

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