critically low battery is not sufficiently well notified

[Andy Stanford-Clark]

There is insufficient warning of a critically low battery.

On my T61 ThinkPad, you get a few little pop-up yellow boxes near the battery indicator saying things like 10%, and 5%,
but then after a few more minutes, the machine just switches off.

On Windows, you get a battery critical warning sound - like a siren, which makes you realise you need power quickly and grab a cable.

I have had several times where Ubuntu has simply run out of batteries and I wasn't really very conscious that it was getting that low.

Either a critical warning sound, or a more in-your-face notification, like in the middle of the screen, not the top right, would be more helpful

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

Thank you for your report and helping make Ubuntu better. I'm marking this as a wishlist item. If you are interested in discussing this with the upstream developers that make gnome-power-manager, their website is http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-power-manager/. A form to submit and enhancement request bug and their mailing list address is on that site.