Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager
See the Bug #462267. Now with battstat applet gone, its features should
be added to g-p-m so that user comfort is not harmed.
g-p-m shows only icon in status area. The icon can express only limited
amount of information and even then it is not used to its full
potential. Now the icon can show only battery states (external power
only, battery charging, battery charged, battery with high/low/very
low/critically low remaining capacity discharging).
Precise information is displayed in tooltip only. That means that user
needs to get used to interrupt regularly work on some battery, move the
cursor to the icon, wait for tooltip to appear, read the information and
then to resume work. All of this must be often done with integrated
pointing devices that are much slower and much more precise than regular
mouse.
I request these features to be added to g-p-m's UI to fix mentioned
usability flaw:
1) add a keyboard shortcut that would display notification bubble with
actual power state (and let know about it in tooltip, g-p-m settings or
another place that is likely to be visited by plain user)
2) icon modification so it displays actual charge in "analog" way. The
"battery inside" of Humanity g-p-m icon on my computer is 11 px high so
it should drop 1 px for every 100/11 = 9 discharged percents of
capacity. (And of course rise for every 9 % recharged.)
3) option to display remaining time or percents permanently
4) option to show large battery in style of battstat's two icons mode or
in style of Lenovo's Battery MaxiMiser gauge (see attachments)
** Affects: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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g-p-m doesn't show enough information
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/485370
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