"Laptop battery (estimating...)" -estimating what?
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Indicator Applet |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
One Hundred Papercuts |
Opinion
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The drop-down menu for the gnome-power-manager battery status menu says "Laptop battery (estimating...)"
At a minimum this be fixed to read "Laptop batter (estimating time...)" or "Laptop battery (estimating battery life...)".
Ideally if the remaining battery *time* is not known (because less than sufficient datapoints have been collected to enable estimation) then the percentage should be displayed in-lieu. The percentage is already available and is used to drive the indicator-applet icon itself.
The current implementation is specified by:
https:/
but because the "estimating..." text can exist for days-on-end (nearly a week in the case of this computer) it probably needs a slight tweak or design addition to take account of the time estimation not being available for long periods of time.
See bug #629258 for previous (lukewarm) discussions on the lower-stack issues. This two bugs might want re-splitting/
Changed in indicator-applet (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
summary: |
- indicator applet 0.4.6: "Laptop battery (estimating...)" (estimating - what?) + indicator applet 0.4.6: "Laptop battery (estimating...)" for days on end + when discharge/charge time not known |
tags: | added: needs-design |
description: | updated |
Changed in indicator-applet: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
description: | updated |
How about ommiting it completely if there's no data present?