gnome-power-manager should give a countdown when battery is critical

[Joseph Garvin]

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

I was using my laptop and gnome-power-manager informed me my battery was getting low and the system would soon shutdown. It then proceeded to shut down without asking me after about 5 seconds. This wasn't enough time to finish what I needed to finish and make sure I was thoroughly, saved, logged out, etc. of what I was working on.

It would be nice if when gnome-power-manager decides to shut down it popped up a dialog with a countdown (say 10 seconds) with a "Delay" button and/or an "Ignore" button. "Your laptop will be shut off in 10... 9..." etc. Delay would cause it to wait another minute or so before bugging you again, and Ignore would cause it ignore that the battery is critical (until the next time the AC is inserted and removed). I think this is saner than having a power management inhibiting applet -- which I may not even have time to get to and load before gnome-power-manager decides to shutdown my machine. It would be friendly to non-power-users.

Ubuntu version: Intrepid Ibex

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587146

[Christopher Knörle (cknoerle)]

This does affect me, too.
And I think shaving this as a wishlist item does not take into account this had been working before upgrading to Ubuntu 11.10.
This is definitely a regression!

I have two batteries and sometimes my notebook does get shut down when the first one (external) is reaching discharged status even though the internal battery is completey charged.