It's repeated twice because Gnome Power Manager doesn't just manage laptop batteries, but also manages phone, keyboard, mouse, UPS, and PDA batteries. The string originally used to say: "Laptop Battery Discharging" "Laptop battery discharging (%)" (because the other options are "UPS battery discharging", etc.)
We changed it so that if you only have a laptop battery it would say: "Battery Discharging" "Laptop battery discharging (%)" If you have adequate power history or a battery that GPM could identify the amount of time left, you should also see the time remaining. On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Mat Tomaszewski <mat.tomaszew...@canonical.com> wrote: > This is still an issue in Karmic. The notification says "Battery > Discharging" "Laptop battery discharging (%)". There is very little > value in such information (especially if it's repeated twice). > > ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts > Status: Fix Committed => Triaged > > ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts > Importance: Undecided => Medium > > -- > Notifications when switching between AC/battery power should be improved > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/399492 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in Gnome Powermanager: Fix Committed > Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: Triaged > Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu: Triaged > Status in “notify-osd” package in Ubuntu: Invalid > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager > > Hello, > > I'm writing this feature request because I believe power notifications can be > greatly improved by being simplified to the strict necessary. > > I began a discussion about this subject, that you can find on the Ayatana ML > ( https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/msg00146.html ), and I ended up > drafting new triggered and non-triggered notifications, as follows (preview > of the result here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkdaiXXcv8w ) : > > Icon info > Title "Power information" > Body "Computer is running on battery power > Laptop battery 1 hour 45 minutes remaining (72.0%)" > > Becomes > > Icon notification-battery-070 > Title "1:45 hours remaining" > > I'll include a file (the shell script used for the video above) with many > more examples, and proposals of improvement for the "battery low" > notifications too. The icons are created and uploaded into the Human icon > theme. If needed, they can be put in notify-osd. They basically convey the % > left and plugged / not plugged information to make the text part lighter > (images can hold much more meaning than words in some cases). > > Obviously I think this is implementable only as an Ubuntu patch (at least > till the notification-* icons get some recognition outside of notify-osd / > ubuntu), but I still think it's worth a try as it makes notifications > _really_ easier to read. > > Voilà. If you need any other information about this feature request, please > let me know ASAP. I really hope this can be done for Karmic. > -- Notifications when switching between AC/battery power should be improved https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/399492 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
