2013/11/25 Chen Wayne <chunweic...@outlook.com>
> Sounds reasonable, I will try to build another implementation on top of
> upower.
>
> Thanks for your hint.
>
> - wayne
>
>
You can have a look at lxqt-powermanagement. It contains the application
lxqt-battery which monitors the battery and shows status in the system
tray. It's upower based.
br. Chr.
> ------------------------------
> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 16:58:16 +0800
> Subject: Re: [Lxde-list] New power plugin for lxqt-panel for showing
> battery information
> From: pcman...@gmail.com
> To: chunweic...@outlook.com; Lxde-list@lists.sourceforge.net;
> razor...@googlegroups.com
>
>
> Thanks for the contribution.
> Maybe you can consider using upower instead.
> Directly reading from /sys is definitely faster.
> However, some buggy hardware drivers either reported wrong values or use
> different formats for the output.
> We encountered this problems long time ago while developing a battery
> plugin for old lxde gtk+ version.
> Internally, upower may did many workarounds for them and report correct
> values to us.
> In addition, letting upower monitor for the changes in an event-driven
> manner is easier than polling it ourselves.
> What do you think?
>
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Chen Wayne <chunweic...@outlook.com>wrote:
>
> Hello List,
>
> I have implemented a new plugin for showing battery icon and remained
> power percentage on lxqt-panel.
>
> Code is put here:
> https://github.com/waynecw/lxqt-panel/tree/master/plugin-power
>
> This plugin periodically checks /sys directory to grab the latest battery
> information, and shows a corresponding icon and percentage on the right
> side of lxqt-panel. The current support icon themes are "gnome", "oxygen",
> and "ubuntu-mono-dark/light".
>
> Please feel free to play it, any comment is very welcome.
>
> I hope this plugin can be integrated into lxqt-panel, and if no problem, I
> will pull request to the main repository.
>
> Thanks,
> Wayne
>
>
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