On January 5, 2009 18:32:04 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > Hi Marcos, > > On Tuesday 06 January 2009 01:14:03 Marcos Dione wrote: > > as I mentioned in IRC, I have a patch for this. as sebas and aseigo > > suggested, I'm sending it here. > > > > now, right now there are 3 bugs: the remaining time, either for > > total discharge when the AC is plugged off and the complete recharge > > time when the AC is plugged back in. > > > > the first one is that the time jumps a lot depending on the laptop's > > laod. just IRC'ing and lkistening to music makes it change from 3h to > > 2:50. not a big gap, but misleading anyways. > > It might not be misleading, the number depends on how much energy your > machine sucks at that -more or less- moment. It doesn't take into account > usage patterns, of course. Playing MP3 can make quite a difference, btw. In > order to provide a decoded audio stream, you need the CPU all the time, so > it cannot be put to sleep. Even if it doesn't do much, it still can't > really sleep, and eats battery.
it does seem like some smoothing could be done, though. maybe take the last few samples and average them or something? although ideally I think HAL should offer something like that for us. > > > the third one is avoidable, really. I coded it so when the battery > > is fully charged it shows 'Charged' instead of 0:00. the problem is that > > right now it doesn't set its width (not again!) so the tect fits. this > > can be 'solved' just removing an simple if until I hack the final code. > > Hm, are you sure it makes sense to show the time when it's plugged in? Is > that actually the "time remaining until fully charged"? I looked at getting > this information some time ago, but I think I couldn't find it ... in kde3 (pre-hal) I had that information, and I found it useful, so I hope it is. :) -- This message brought to you by eevil bananas and the number 3. www.chani3.com
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