battery critically low dialog doesn't disappear when plugged in

[Manuel R. Ciosici]

When the laptop battery is very low an alert dialog is shown to the user. If the dialog isn't dismissed, but the laptop is plugged in the dialog does not disappear automatically and could become a source of confusion for a newcomer to Ubuntu of a novice user of a PC.

See image below where the laptop has been plugged in, but the dialog is still present.

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

It would be good to fix such a bug, but is it really possible to externally get a dialog to close? Marking confirmed, but not triaged and not milestoning it, for now.

[Neil H (neilhillen)]

In addition to this, it would be great if it additionally would make clear what OK and Cancel mean. Does OK mean it will shut down? If not, there should be one "dismiss" button. If it hoes hibernate the message should indicate that or the button should say hibernate. This is a trivial change - but one that needs to be done.

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks a lot for reporting this, however this is not a bug since the battery indicator is designed to not disappear until the battery is fully charged. What you observe is the intended behaviour.

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

This isn't invalid, but instead a bug that was fixed when bug #533652 was fixed.

[Rushi Agrawal (rushiagr)]

Chris, I guess there was slight misunderstanding. Manuel was intending that the 'dialog box' which says 'battery cricital, plug in charging' doesn't go away when one plugs in the charger. I think the 'dialog box' should go away as soon as battery is plugged in. You are right that the battery 'indicator' mustn't disapper, but that 'dialog box' should as soon as you plug the charger.

I am noticing the same issues even now, in Ubuntu 13.04. It would be great if this UI inconvenience is fixed.

Thanks.

[Rushi Agrawal (rushiagr)]

Please open this bug again for gnome-power-manager, so that the people can track and triage and later fix it?