Comment 0 for bug 811777

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://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Guidelines/SystemStatus/BatteryPower

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.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: indicator-power 0.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-5.6-generic 3.0.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-5-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jul 15 16:44:00 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
SourcePackage: indicator-power
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-06-17 (28 days ago)