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Bug 148094 - battery applet doesn't re-check for ACPI support when it finds it initially unavailable
battery applet doesn't re-check for ACPI support when it finds it initially u...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-applets
Classification: Other
Component: battery
git master
Other Linux
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Assigned To: gnome-applets Maintainers
gnome-applets Maintainers
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Reported: 2004-07-21 15:27 UTC by Mark McLoughlin
Modified: 2010-01-24 01:05 UTC
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Description Mark McLoughlin 2004-07-21 15:27:49 UTC 
From Fedora bug:

  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124787

  When the battstat applet fails to read the battery info (on my machine
  it can appear as if the battery is not present) it stops trying. Even
  if the acpi info is fixed the applet will not show the battery level.

If we don't detect any battery we should probably have a 5 second timeout to
recheck for ACPI and APM. Doesn't look too difficult to implement.
Comment 1 Danielle Madeley 2004-07-23 14:17:29 UTC 
Out of interest, is there ever a serious case for not having ACPI, and then
having it available 5 seconds later?
Comment 2 Mark McLoughlin 2004-07-26 15:28:43 UTC 
See the original bug report - you've a broken ACPI setup, you fix it and the
battery applet doesn't wake up until you log out and log back in again. I
wouldn't classify it as "serious", but it would be nice for the applet to do
this ...
Comment 3 Danielle Madeley 2004-10-30 14:50:00 UTC 
Realistically, I think this should wait until we have HAL support, where the
applet will simply wait for events from HAL. If HAL breaks and stops sending us
events, that's HAL's problem.

Marking as WONTFIX pending rewrite.