Battery indicator is imprecise

[Aditya Bhargava]

The battery indicator is imprecise and shows a full battery icon even while the battery is much less than full. Since the small number of icons doesn't provide much granularity, it should provide the option (or show by default) the remaining battery capacity (as a percentage) in addition to or instead of the estimated time remaining.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: elementary OS 0.2
Package: elementary-desktop 1.295-0~369~precise1 [origin: LP-PPA-elementary-os-daily]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-39.62-generic 3.2.39
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-39-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1+elementary3~precise1
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: elementary_meta
Date: Tue Apr 2 15:12:53 2013
InstallationMedia: elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" - Beta 1 amd64 (20121114)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: elementary-meta
SuspiciousXErrors:

ThirdParty: True
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[UncleLaz (andrei-lisnic)]

+1 I'd like the percentage very much in the indicator, since I love to tweak my battery optimizations. I have to constantly run acpi -b in order to see my percentage.

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

So I'm seeing two separate requests here:

1. The icons should do a better job of showing the battery charge, and

2. It would be nice to show the battery percentage next to the icon

These have been addressed in bug #824629 and bug #811777.

Happily, both of these are fixed for 13.10.

Closing this ticket as a duplicate of #824629

[Charles Kerr (charlesk)]

Previous comment should read "bug #1215520" rather than "bug #824629"