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[Ryan Lortie <desrt@xxxxxxxx>]

Just to play devil's advocate a bit here:

The logic taken in this bug (that we should show the device that will
run out of power first) seems perfectly sound, but it makes a very large
assumption, which I suspect will often be untrue: that reporting of time
remaining on mice will always be completely accurate.

I think there are two problems with the assumption.

The first is that there have been reports (one just now on IRC from
jcastro) about faulty hardware/driver combos that report things like "1
minute remaining" all the time.  Users with this hardware would probably
like that fixed, but for lack of a fix, would probably prefer to be able
to go on with their lives with the minimum amount of disruption.

Second issue is that I wonder if "estimated time left" reporting on a
device which has a battery that lasts up to a year is _ever_ accurate to
the hours or minutes that we would need it to be in order to
meaningfully compare it against laptop battery life.

Those two point combined cause me to believe that the only case in which
this feature would be engaged would be in the "wrong" case.  Maybe it
makes sense to just remove it entirely after all?

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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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