Battery state notification bubbles - duplicated functionality
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager
There appears to be duplicated functionality in 9.10 that reports battery status as notification bubbles - one reports the current state as simply a percentage, while the other reports the percentage of a full charge and how long the battery might likely last.
It may be that the software has has not yet determined the discharge rate so cannot determine the expected lifetime. If so, perhaps it should report "Laptop battery (72%) - discharge rate is being determined" or some such.
On a related note, 9.10 introduced a battery status reporting applet that is launched from the notification area. Unlike other launch area notification applets, when you close the battery status applet AND the top panel is set to autohide, the panel continues to be displayed after the applet has exited.
Aha! The inconsistent behaviour is as thus:
1: Hovering over the icon displays the current %age charge and remaining minutes, - moving the mouse from the notification area allows the panel to autohide
2: Double-clicking the icon displays the current %age charge and remaining minutes, - moving the mouse from the notification area allows the panel to auto-hide BUT the bubble is displayed to the left of the screen rather than the right
3: a single click on the icon just displays the battery state BUT the panel does not autohide. You have to click elsewhere in the top panel to allow the panel to resume its autohide capability. This could be annoying the the panel is obscuring the task bar of an already running application.
Regards