Automatic suspend delay is at least 15 mins

[Mate Varga]

Settings -> Power -> Automatic suspend -> On battery power -> Delay has a minimum value of 15 mins. This might made sense to the developer who thought that you never want a lower value because you have a laptop with multiple hours of battery life, but the same setting is used for desktop computers than run on UPSs. In case of a power outage, desktop users might reasonably want a lower delay before suspending the computer (1 or 5 minutes, etc.) so I believe that this is a UX design issue.

If you agree with this I might be able to patch it.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, that has been reported upstream on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/issues/305 and you should better comment there about your usecase (having a faulty battery is probably not going to convince them to add values that are not useful to most users though)

Note also that you can change the value to something not in the UI by using gsetting set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-battery-timeout <value in second>

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Upstream closed this as effectively "won't fix". The issue is not important enough for an Ubuntu specific patch, so I'm afraid we need to follow upstream.