GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 540373
Applet should allow configuration to more accurately display how much battery life is left
Last modified: 2020-11-06 20:14:59 UTC
The old batt-stat applet used to allow the user to show on the battery icon a more accurate representation of battery life remaining, either in percentage or estimated time remaining. This functionality should also be configurable, if not the default, in gnome power manager. Just because Gnome's apparent philosophy is to be simplified for the user, does not mean we cannot expose extra configuration to more advanced users in the places where they traditionally look - the preferences. Sorry if this is a dupe, I'm not used to Gnome's bugzilla installation.
What exactly do you want, clearer icons or a bigger bar thing?
Ideally both. Specifically an option for an overlay on the panel icon to either display battery remaining in time (hrs and mins) or a percentage of battery capacity. For the purpose that it avoids having to mouseover the g-p-m icon.
We can't do this just yet. We need the new applet infrastructure work so we can add ourselves to a panel like g-p-m can do with GtkStatusIcon and also be resizable and appendable like an applet can be. Ryan Lortie is working on the new applet stuff, you'll have to ask him how it's progressing.
Thank-you for the information, I'll look him up. Also thank-you for keeping the bug open and not making it a WONTFIX, I think it would improve the usefulness of g-p-m in the future, especially for laptop users.
Richard: will this new applet infrastructure work also allow more fine-grained icons for discharge? How is the work going? Also, is there any chance of GNOME doing the colours based on time remaining rather than percentage remaining? The indicator on my 6-hour-life Thinkpad turns red when it has more usable time remaining than some laptops when fully charged! Gerv
(In reply to comment #5) > Also, is there any chance of GNOME doing the colours based on time remaining > rather than percentage remaining? The indicator on my 6-hour-life Thinkpad > turns red when it has more usable time remaining than some laptops when fully > charged! We're doing this since 2-24. Richard.
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