Yep, this is more like a regression bug than anything else. I can see that the choice has been made to protect stupid user from losing data, but this isn't how it should have been done. Add a warning dialog or something if you need to, but please let user decide on this.
It's really annoying to have a brick on your lap while knowing that there's actually 4 hours juice left on battery, it's just the $0.01 dumb chip on a two year old battery that says it's critical. Regular user shouldn't need to go to gconf-editor to work around this. Calibrating doesn't seem to be long term solution either for some batteries, and there's no easy fix for that. A workaround (at least on 10.04): Using gconf-editor, change /apps/gnome-power- manager/actions/critical_battery to "nothing". Power manager GUI does recognize this, too, unless you change it back. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/678265 Title: 'do nothing' option for critical battery removed - prevents battery calibration Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager The option to 'do nothing' when the battery reaches critical level has been removed. This means I am unable in Ubuntu to run my battery down to 0% to recalibrate it. This was introduced in version 10.04 which means I haven't been able to re-calibrate my battery in months and it's starting to suffer as a result with the capacity constantly reducing. Please can you re-instate the option so I can properly re-calibrate my battery once again. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: gnome-power-manager 2.32.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Nov 21 19:40:33 2010 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-power-manager GnomeSessionIdleInhibited: No GnomeSessionInhibitors: None GnomeSessionSuspendInhibited: No InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429) MachineType: Acer Aspire 5535 ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic root=UUID=0ad95af5-d131-426f-876a-6a9924ac89d3 ro quiet splash nomodeset video=uvesafb:mode_option=1024x768-24,mtrr=3,scroll=ywrap ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash LANG=en_GB.utf8 SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager dmi.bios.date: 11/04/2008 dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD dmi.bios.version: V1.04 dmi.board.name: Aspire 5535 dmi.board.vendor: Acer dmi.board.version: Rev dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer dmi.chassis.version: N/A dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvrV1.04:bd11/04/2008:svnAcer:pnAspire5535:pvr0100:rvnAcer:rnAspire5535:rvrRev:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrN/A: dmi.product.name: Aspire 5535 dmi.product.version: 0100 dmi.sys.vendor: Acer To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/678265/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
