Public bug reported:
Upon upgrade to Ubuntu 12.10, the power status menu started showing the
battery charge of my Bluetooth mouse (an Eclipse Touchmouse), which is
very nice. However, because there is only one battery shown at once in
the menu bar, I did not at first realise that it was my mouse battery
being shown, and I could not work out why my laptop battery was only at
30% charge and was not showing as connected to AC power. In the end, I
showed the power menu and discovered that there were two batteries in
it, which helped clear up the confusion.
This would have been much clearer if the battery icon in the menu bar
were a picture of a mouse. It is possible that Ubuntu does not know
enough metadata about my mouse to know that it *is* a mouse and this is
why it appears merely as a second laptop battery. Attached screenshot
shows that Ubuntu believes my mouse to be "unknown technology" and its
Type to be "laptop battery". However, the device ID contains "_hid_",
which suggests that something somewhere in the system is aware that it's
a battery for a Human Interface Device (possibly "human input device"),
and thus not the main battery for my laptop. The model is also known
("Eclipse Touch Mouse") although of course that's only unparseable text.
There may be two bugs here: that it's not obvious on an Ubuntu upgrade
that there are now two batteries shown when one was shown before, and
that Ubuntu is not correctly identifying my Bluetooth mouse *as* a
mouse. I am happy to provide metadata to help with the latter case.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: indicator-power 12.10.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 4d186c1dd89d3ba4cb89f5ee55713686
CheckboxSystem: bb422ca46d02494cdbc459927a98bc2f
Date: Sat Oct 20 14:07:33 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20111211)
SourcePackage: indicator-power
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-20 (0 days ago)
** Affects: indicator-power (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug quantal running-unity
** Attachment added: "Screenshot from 2012-10-20 14:12:42.png"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1069075/+attachment/3405883/+files/Screenshot%20from%202012-10-20%2014%3A12%3A42.png
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Power status menu shows mouse battery only in menu bar, confusingly
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