GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 128644
Request: independent monitoring of dual battery systems
Last modified: 2020-11-07 12:25:45 UTC
I am running Mandrake Linux 9.2 on a Dell Inspiron 3800. This is a dual battery system (with one battery sharing space with a removable drive). I'd like to see the battery monitor tracking each battery seperately. Thank you for your time.
This is in the design goals for when I rewrite the battery applet. See http://www.livejournal.com/users/davyd/98869.html for some thoughts I scribbled down. I am still not sure how APM represents multiple batteries (and unfortunately we still have to deal with APM).
*** Bug 147877 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The rewrite is waiting for HAL to support batteries.
OK. This is now within grasp. I suggest a (gasp) preference that only appears if battstat detects 2 or more battery bays: [X] Display the status of each battery separately In the case where it's not checked, it will just sum up the totals for both battery in the same way that the current ACPI code does. In the case where it is checked, the toplevel of the widget will become a box (or a table?) that contains two sub-applets. Alternatively: In the event that more than one battery is detected a preference appears: Show status of which battery: [ All batteries combined V ] | Battery #1 Only | | Battery #2 Only | and you leave it up to the user to add multiple applets and set one of them to "#1" and the other to "#2". This might be premature. We also need to talk about how battstat will behave within the new hardware-based-applets framework that's -- supposed to be ;) -- coming soon.
Ryan, I don't really like what you're suggesting. I would like to keep one singular battery on the panel. Instead, have a dropdown that looks something like this: http://davyd.ucc.asn.au/images/battstat_status.png (ignore the GtkNoteNook, I was originally considering something similar to GNOME-Netstatus). When you click on it, you get a dropdown similar to how the mixer-applet gives you a dropdown, this dropdown contains the status of each of your batteries separately. This would still happen on single battery systems. No obscure preferences, easily discoverable. We could also display lots of potentially interesting information that HAL tells us. The panel applet will continue to display the union of the information, which is in itself, the most useful thing to know.
This has been implemented years ago and can be closed.
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