GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 633703
Exported gnome-shell information is sometimes wrong
Last modified: 2010-11-19 22:14:27 UTC
See bug 622451
Created attachment 174010 [details] [review] Do not expose the full device summary to gnome-shell gnome-shell will show percentages and times separately, using provided data. Do not duplicate this information and instead only send a localized name for the device.
oh, we need to get this (or something like it) in soon now that the power icon is committed in gnome-shell
I would like to note that commit bb4a434d61d040e73e5986ee8a7375a2ae5f09c7 actually made things worse: now we're showing a stringified GIcon instead of the battery. Of course, the icon is useful, but not as much as the device string (especially with all the translations already there).
I've come to the conclusion that trying to export full text description is bad, as g-p-m can't possibly hope to get formatting that's correct for gnome-shell and gnome-control-center (and unity, etc). I think it's quite sane to construct the description in the shell and the control center. Plus, an icon is so much more useful.
This has been fixed on the gnome-shell part. Now the information is correct and complete.