GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 166953
[enh] use notification bubble message for 'battery is fully charged' message
Last modified: 2005-06-20 15:44:06 UTC
1) i wish option to have percentage typed over the battery image. Having text over gauge is rather common and will save space.\ 2) i wish this applet could query and show text info from HAL or from /proc/acpi battery (though i think that would somewhen be deprecated and moved to sysfs) In Windows i have this as an extra option - and sometimes it is quite usable 3) suspend command - it is default to "apm -s" But most novadays notebooks do not have apm but an ACPI instead. Having default value insists that "it should work" - and will it fail, that will hurt the user. If there is no standard way to suspend notebook yet (hope d-bus will manage it someday), won't it be better to remove default and ask user to contact their hardware or linux vendor for support ? 4) the thought, that made me go here. New applet can show both percentage of charge - r time left to work. What will it show when i am on AC ? Time to finish charging ? Personally i'd prefer mixed variant (and i think many users too). When i am on battery - show me time, how long i can work yet. When i am on AC, charging battery - show me the share of a capacity (percentage) Thank You. PS: 5) after all i think that 'Battery low' and especially 'Battery fully chargeed' are too be better a tray tooltips, (perhaps disappering in several seconds) like those around Windows XP tray. But as far as i understood, there ain't enough standard method for tooltips yet in Gnome :( PS: just some lyrics :-) I'm running AltLinux.ru Sysiphus One may say, Sysiphus is beta packages (apt over rpm) repository, while there are stable releases and alpha-repository Daedalus :-) So i do not know how exactly to match all those library and kernel versions. I run some kind of 2.6 kernel with HAL ,hotplug, libhardware, etc. It seems someonce AltLinux was forked from Mandrake, but i can't say how similar they are now. At least i can say that Gnome claims to be 2.9.91 :-)
The battery low warning is designed to be the most irritating, in your face warning I could think of. I don't like to not notice things like that. The battery charged warning would be nicer as a notification. Most of the rest of your problems will be handled when we rewrite the UI and port to use the new ACPI/APM/PMU code that will be appearing shortly in HAL.
I agree upon tooltips vs. dialogs. We may also dig into details, saying that Gnome notification area may be removed, or that maybe this applet can be runnedd in some meta-tray of another environment, or... So will tooltip be impossible, then applet would have to throw a dialog (or draw tooltip itself, not in the notification area) - but why ? Those were just and ideas, wiches, to make UI (as i think) better. Would You consider them the same - good. Would You think they will only make UI worse - again, it's Your choice. :-)
1) I don't think this will ever happen. There will soon be a mode, though, that allows you to use a smaller battery meter to save space. 2) HAL support will be tracked in bug #301661. 3) There has been some talk about this too -- the current state of affairs is pretty bad. I'm of the mind that the battery status applet should really have nothing to do with suspending your laptop and that the functionality should be removed entirely ('hiberate the computer' is already on my logout menu. perhaps suspend should go here.) I've opened a bug #303496 to deal with this. 4) I've opened bug #303497 to deal with this in a limited capacity. 5) Discussion on this point appears to be taking place in this bug. Changing summary to be more specific on this point since I've moved all the other points out. Unfortunately, point 5 is blocked at the moment since we don't have working notification area bubble messages.
Now uses libnotify in CVS HEAD.