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[Don McCants <don@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I used nano to successfully edit the 95-upower-csr.rules in elementary
OS Freya, as indicated by asmoore82.

I want to chime in and reiterate that mouse power management should take
priority over OS power management. Battery usage tracking and management
for laptops/netbooks should the primary, and dare I say only focus of
the battery indicator.

I believe that this is the feeling of the majority. I don't mean to
dismiss the feelings or opinions of those who like to manage their mouse
battery power. However, if the indicator can not be easily fixed to
prioritize laptop battery over mouse battery, then I think mouse support
should be removed until it can be fixed.

Modern mouse power management is such that mice last for thousands of
hours (many months) of constant use on a single set of batteries--in
fact it is a selling point on the packaging of most mice. I also believe
the lengths I had to go to to find this info is very anti-consumer, and
it discourages wider adoption of Linux as an accessible, usable, OS.

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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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