indicator icon gives false sense of urgency
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager
I have a laptop with a large battery. When GPM gets to the point where it uses battery-020, the applet/indicator in the panel makes me think I'm going to run out of batter imminently (e.g. next 15-30 minutes). Indeed, on another laptop with a smaller batter, I usually get this when I have only ~20-30 minutes left. But on this laptop, if I click on the indicator, it tells me I have 1 hour, 30 minutes left, which is about 3 times longer than I want to go before getting notified that I'm about to run out of battery.
So there are several solutions I can think of, and I'm sure there are more:
1) GPM ships with an orange icon for battery-020, and a red icon for battery-000. You could just say it is a problem with the user's icon theme. The problem is that this is not good for a lot of more symbolic (at least in the panel) icon themes (e.g. ubuntu-mono, elementary).
2) Somehow implement it so that the percent at which it turns red is configurable. (Easily configurable, not hacking the icon theme configurable).
3) Somehow implement it so that if you get to a certain amount of battery time left (ideally also user-configurable, but it doesn't have to be here, unlike in #2), /then/ the icon turns red. I like this solution out of all the ones I see.
4) Something else I didn't think of. :)
For solutions 2 and 3, the icon spec for gpm could merely be changed to have gpm-battery-
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.32.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Feb 4 14:57:17 2011
GnomeSessionIdl
GnomeSessionInh
GnomeSessionSus
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Studio 1737
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
dmi.bios.date: 11/25/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A08
dmi.board.name: 0P792H
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A08
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.
dmi.product.name: Studio 1737
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
description: | updated |
summary: |
- indicator icon gives user false sense of alarm + indicator icon gives false sense of warning |
summary: |
- indicator icon gives false sense of warning + indicator icon gives false sense of urgency |
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