Battery meter design needs to make both percentage and time statistics easily accessible.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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indicator-power |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Haw Loeung | ||
indicator-power (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Haw Loeung |
Bug Description
indicator-power 0.3-0ubuntu1, Ubuntu 11.10
The power menu option to "show time remaining" is not very useful. The number fluctuates way too much to be constantly visible in the menu bar and is therefore distracting.
If any number should be there, the battery's percent charged won't fluctuate but will go down or up steadily based on whether the laptop is plugged in or not.
In fact, the current design does not show the charge percentage at all. This is in contrast to how other OS's work. My Android phone shows me a % but does not tell me how many minutes I have left. Gnome Shell shows both the time & a percentage: https:/
Suggestions:
1. Replace Show Time Remaining with Show Percentage Remaining (I think a checkbox in Power Settings would be an even better location for this option but I believe we're hesitant to patch System Settings more than is necessary.)
2. Optionally, follow Gnome Shell's design and include the charge percentage on the battery charge line of the power menu.
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Related branches
- PS Jenkins bot (community): Approve (continuous-integration)
- Matthew Paul Thomas (community): Needs Fixing (design)
- Charles Kerr (community): Needs Fixing
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Diff: 373 lines (+130/-27)4 files modifieddata/com.canonical.indicator.power.gschema.xml.in (+6/-1)
src/device.c (+4/-4)
src/service.c (+107/-9)
tests/test-device.cc (+13/-13)
- Ted Gould (community): Approve
- PS Jenkins bot (community): Approve (continuous-integration)
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Diff: 959 lines (+322/-214)8 files modifieddata/com.canonical.indicator.power.gschema.xml.in (+5/-0)
src/device-provider.c (+1/-1)
src/device.c (+120/-56)
src/device.h (+16/-15)
src/service.c (+76/-84)
tests/test-dbus-listener.cc (+11/-11)
tests/test-device.cc (+90/-44)
tests/test-service.cc (+3/-3)
Changed in indicator-power: | |
status: | Incomplete → Opinion |
Changed in indicator-power (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Opinion |
summary: |
- Battery meter design needs to make percentage and time statistics easily - accessible. + Battery meter design needs to make both percentage and time statistics + easily accessible. |
Changed in ayatana-design: | |
status: | Incomplete → New |
assignee: | nobody → Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) |
Changed in ayatana-design: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
summary: |
- Battery meter design needs to make both percentage and time statistics - easily accessible. + Menu Bar - Battery meter design needs to make both percentage and time + statistics easily accessible. |
Changed in ayatana-design: | |
importance: | Medium → Undecided |
tags: | added: quantal unity |
Changed in indicator-power: | |
status: | Opinion → Confirmed |
Changed in indicator-power (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Opinion → Confirmed |
Changed in ayatana-design: | |
assignee: | Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) → nobody |
Changed in indicator-power (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) |
Changed in indicator-power: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Changed in indicator-power: | |
assignee: | nobody → Haw Loeung (hloeung) |
Changed in indicator-power (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Haw Loeung (hloeung) |
Changed in indicator-power: | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in indicator-power (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in indicator-power: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Changed in indicator-power (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
Not really sure how you are basing the "more useful" here, but I'd have to disagree with the current bug report.
What is the first thought that pops into your head when you see " NN% remaining"?
Alteast, in my head it is, "oh! that would be approximately nn mins left or maybe something closer" But I'm always not exactly sure what the percentage really relates to.
From reading the bug report it seems the problem here is "number fluctuates way too much ... and is therefore distracting" ,
maybe we should be looking into fixing the update interval and not how the time is displayed.