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[Alex <Alex.Ford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm in agreement with Jochen. There will never be a situation where I
want to see my mouse indicator. In my case I'm using a Targus mouse
running on two AA batteries. Ubuntu seems to think my mouse is at 0%
power and needs to be charged. It's not even a chargeable mouse. Even if
it was rechargeable I wouldn't want this indicator to ever override my
laptop battery status. My laptop is charging and I have to keep
unplugging it to see the battery status because clicking the indicator
only gives me a time to charged number when I'd rather see a percentage.

While my power cord is plugged in and the laptop is charging all I see
is a red mouse icon in the place of my battery indicator. I was only
mildly annoyed at first because I assumed there had to be an option
somewhere to just disable showing my mouse battery. I was wrong, so now
I'm slightly more annoyed.

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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:
  In Progress

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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