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[Bug 1315434] Re: Mouse with no time remaining estimate showing in preference to battery being charged

 

@jofa:  "If you want to satisfy all user needs, you should make it
configurable."

Yes.  Why does the power indicator display have to be decreed to users?

The mouse battery (along with any other battery besides the laptop) is
irrelevant to me as well.  By the current design, the "power indicator"
on my laptop does not indicate the status of my laptop battery.  While
that seems like defective design to me, to someone else stubbornly
displaying the laptop battery may seem like the wrong way to use a
laptop.

Letting users set a static display option to override the default
behavior would do the trick.

In any case, thanks for the patch.

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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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