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[Charles Kerr <charles.kerr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So, the good news is that the code to pop up a notification is there and
working -- an alert does appear, as per the spec.

The bad news is that it's an interactive notification, which means that
unity-notifications hardcodes the notification to disappear after five
seconds. So unless you're looking at the screen during those five
seconds, you won't see the notification.

I'm not sure how to proceed on this. MacSlow's got a valid point about
avoiding feature creep in unity-notifications, but I don't see any other
obvious medium for this notification. I'm not sure what the Right Thing
to do is here.

Perhaps we should have a "low power" sound play, just as laptops and
android phones do?

FWIW, this bug is compounded by the power icon not showing red at low
power levels. This has a fix about to land in
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-
power/+bug/1186181>, which has a fix about to land.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1296431

Title:
  Phone doesn't alert user of critical power situations

Status in “indicator-power” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  The phone doesn't currently alert the user when the battery is critical.
  This leads to power loss at times and the user doesn't know it's about to happen or had happened.
  e.g. during a call, or while listening to music. Also if the phone is sat on the desk unplugged from power connection.

  <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Power#Warnings>: "When the device’s
  battery/batteries are discharging and reach — or begin discharging and
  already have — 1 hour or less remaining (PC) or 20% or less remaining
  (phone/tablet), a notification bubble should appear ... When the
  device’s battery/batteries are discharging and reach — or begin
  discharging and already have — 30 minutes or less remaining (PC) or
  10% or less remaining (phone/tablet), an alert should appear..."

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