| 2015-04-05 19:41:55 |
Elladan |
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Using Linux Mint Cinnamon 17.1 on a Thinkpad T440s, the battery indicator only shows information about one battery on my status bar.
This computer model is always configured with two batteries: a replaceable external one, and a permanent internal one.
Both batteries are detected, so I can click on the battery icon to see a list. But this is a pretty terrible experience: usually only the external battery is displayed (though this is semi-random. Occasionally the order will be swapped).
So, when my battery is draining, I usually see it drain down to 5% as the external battery discharges, and then it just sits there like that for hours while the internal battery invisibly drains.
There is also no indication which battery is which: they're both just "Laptop battery."
A reasonable interface would be to label each battery like "Laptop battery 1" "Laptop battery 2" and then make the icon show the average charge. Or, you could have two icons.
On a related note, I'm not really sure what the actual /icon/ is showing me. It's tiny and basically illegible, so I'm really just looking at the charge % number. I assume that everyone does this, because it's basically impossible to see how full the tiny icon is. I think the icon may actually be an average, while the number isn't?
(On a related note, the icon /actually/ shows three batteries: it's somehow decided that my bluetooth mouse is a third laptop battery, and actually just tells me I'm at 38% all the time. I opened a different bug for that). |
Using Linux Mint Cinnamon 17.1 on a Thinkpad T440s, the battery indicator only shows information about one battery on my status bar.
This computer model is always configured with two batteries: a replaceable external one, and a permanent internal one.
Both batteries are detected, so I can click on the battery icon to see a list. But this is a pretty terrible experience: usually only the external battery is displayed (though this is semi-random. Occasionally the order will be swapped).
So, when my battery is draining, I usually see it drain down to 5% as the external battery discharges, and then it just sits there like that for hours while the internal battery invisibly drains.
There is also no indication which battery is which: they're both just "Laptop battery."
A reasonable interface would be to label each battery like "Laptop battery 1" "Laptop battery 2" and then make the icon show the average charge. Or, you could have two icons.
On a related note, I'm not really sure what the actual /icon/ is showing me. It's tiny and basically illegible, so I'm really just looking at the charge % number. I assume that everyone does this, because it's basically impossible to see how full the tiny icon is. I think the icon may actually be an average, while the number isn't?
(One other note: the icon /actually/ shows three batteries: it's somehow decided that my bluetooth mouse is a third laptop battery, and actually just tells me I'm at 38% all the time. I opened a different bug for that). |
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