g-p-m critical power warning states "will power-off" which is misleading

[Paul Sladen]

The gnome-power-manager lives in the menu bar and pops up a message at the critical battery level to remind the user that the machine will die:

  http://www.paul.sladen.org/ubuntu/bugs/g-p-m-critical-action.png

This message currently reads:

  [..] this computer is about to shutdown.

this is misleading and gives the user the impression that the machine it about to perform a shutdown (aka controlled halt/poweroff) which would result in loss of work.

This message should be adjusted; as the message only appears *before* the critical level it can only appear when the critical action is "Do nothing" (confirm this...), as such the message should likely be:

  [..] this computer will suddenly power-off when the battery runs completely empty.

or similar.

[Richard Hughes (richard-hughes)]

Correct, we should probably add "Suspend" and "Hibernate" into the text also. Can you create an upstream bug please.

I know launchpad is easier to use than bugzilla, but please send general bugreports to gnome bugzilla, so that the other g-p-m developers automatically get notified. The ubuntu specific ones should stay in lauchpad for sure. Many thanks.

[Richard Hughes (richard-hughes)]

Please see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332150

Thanks. Richard.

[Richard Hughes (richard-hughes)]

2006-02-23 Richard Hughes <email address hidden>
 src/gpm-manager.c (manager_critical_action_do): Do the critical action as part of a g_timeout, rather than a just a delay so we don't lock the GUI. Fixes #332150
 src/gpm-manager.c (battery_status_changed_primary): Describe what we are going to do better, so we don't say we are going to shutdown when we just are going to hibernate. Fixes https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/32250

[Daniel Silverstone (dsilvers)]

Fixed in current dapper