Battery icon in new ubuntu indicators does not honour gconf setting "/apps/gnome-power-manager/general/use_time_for_policy".
My netbook battery lasts about 8hrs in normal use, so, even with low charge percentage I have plenty of working time left.
However, the battery icon switches to "low" icon (black frame with red bar) when I still have about 1:50 hrs time left. I would not consider 1:50 hrs left a low battery status, but this "red" bar sitting there in the corner makes me constantly worried about battery charge left, it is very distracting.
To remedy this, battery icon indicator should honour the above gconf setting and switch to "low" display only when the time configured for power-manager in gconf is reached (1200 sec by default). This way it would go red only when left working time "really" is low (20 min).
regards
sven
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Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
Package: gnome-settings-daemon 2.32.0-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
LANG=de_DE.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.36-generic 2.6.35.7
Tags: maverick
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin mythtv plugdev sambashare
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Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
GnomeSessionIdleInhibited: No
GnomeSessionInhibitors: None
GnomeSessionSuspendInhibited: No
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer INC. 1005PE
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.32.0-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-23-generic root=UUID=13d542f5-b497-46c1-85a6-8985d1ba0260 ro quiet splash elevator=deadline hpet=force acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor
ProcEnviron:
LANG=de_DE.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.36-generic 2.6.35.7
Tags: maverick
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin mythtv plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 04/29/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1103
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: 1005P
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: x.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 0x00000000
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.chassis.version: x.x
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1103:bd04/29/2010:svnASUSTeKComputerINC.:pn1005PE:pvrx.x:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rn1005P:rvrx.xx:cvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:ct10:cvrx.x:
dmi.product.name: 1005PE
dmi.product.version: x.x
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
please open a terminal and do the following so that we have a little info about your system
$ apport-collect 670771