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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jochen, thanks for the patch. But from your description, it seems like
it wouldn't fix the problem, and it would need to be removed when the
problem was fixed.

The problem isn't that we're treating laptop batteries the wrong way,
it's that we're treating the mouse the wrong way. Specifically, we're
treating a device that is discharging over weeks or months as more
important than *anything* that's charging, whether it's a laptop battery
or not.

With your patch, the mouse would still take precedence over anything
charging quickly that wasn't a laptop battery, which would be
inappropriate. And the laptop battery would take precedence over the
mouse even when the mouse had only five minutes charge left, which would
also be inappropriate.

So we need some other criteria for deprioritizing things that are
discharging very slowly. I don't think whether something is rechargeable
is relevant: if my mouse battery is going to die in 20 minutes, I want
to know that regardless of whether the solution is docking it or buying
new batteries.

** Changed in: indicator-power (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1315434

Title:
  Mouse with no time remaining estimate showing in preference to battery
  being charged

Status in “indicator-power” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When my laptop battery is in a charging state, but is not fully
  charged, I expect it to be displayed in preference to my mouse, which
  has no time remaining estimate.

  The spec here:

  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Power

  says:

  "If anything is discharging, the menu title should represent the
  component (not battery, but component) that is estimated to lose power
  first. For example, if your notebook battery is estimated to discharge
  in 1 hour 47 minutes, and your wireless mouse battery is estimated to
  discharge in 27 minutes, the menu title should represent the mouse. "

  but there doesn't seem to be any guideline to what happens when a
  battery is being charged.

  I suggest the time remaining to charge a battery should be displayed
  in preference to the power level in a wireless mouse.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: indicator-power 12.10.6+14.04.20140411-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Fri May  2 11:50:36 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-26 (156 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
  SourcePackage: indicator-power
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-01-17 (104 days ago)

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