On Fri 26. Aug 09:49:00, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Thursday 25 August 2005 23:20, Holger Macht wrote:
> > On Thu 25. Aug 18:25:36, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > > On Thursday 25 August 2005 14:33, Mark Hellman wrote:
> > > > Regarding KPowersave, when the laptop is plugged in, KPowersave could
> > > > show the time remaining until charged, just like 'acpi -V' does. The
> > > > tooltip could show, for example, the following info:
> > > > Plugged in -- 97% charged -- 6:52 minutes until charged -- 600
> > > > MHz instead of just
> > > > Plugged in -- 97% charged -- battery is charging -- 600 MHz
> > > >
> > > > The time remaining until the battery is fully charged is an useful
> > > > information for most users.
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > thanks for you proposal.
> > >
> > > I think, we do this with the new upcommig version with HAL and DBUS
> > > support for powersave/KPowersave.
> > >
> > > We are currently busy with porting and changing both for the next
> > > openSUSE release. If it should not work with upcoming version, we fix
> > > this after openSUSE 10.0 final.
> >
> > I think this should be easy to implement in kpowersave. Powersave already
> > provides this information. I will try to implement it for Beta4 of
> > openSUSE.
>
> I checked this again and it's already implemented since HAL compute the
> remaining time until battery is full changed. It worked out of the box.
And does hal also estimate the remaining charging time if the present rate
is not available?
Danny, you can simply use BatteryRemainingTime method. The returned value
will either be the time until the battery is empty or the time until
battery is fully charged.
Greetings,
Holger
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