Comment 9 for bug 629257

On 4 September 2010 15:11, Jan-Christoph Borchardt
<email address hidden>wrote:

> Sorry, that would indeed qualify as a paper cut.
>
> And if the »(estimating...)« is how it is in fact done now, it should be
> changed to how Tobias was proposing in comment #1

If we remove the "(estimating.."-part then that menu entry just says "Laptop
battery". When clicking it, one is taken to a window named "Power
statistics".
Then "Laptop battery" should be changed to "Power statistics" to reflect
what it actually refers to. Maybe this is actually a papercut also in its
current form.

> and how I described
> above. If it’s estimating, it could mean anything; like you said it
> takes several minutes to estimate and therefore this meta-info is not
> helpful at all.
>

I don't agree here. I think "(estimating battery life...)" does convey
meaningful information (while "(estimating...)" doesn't really).

If you remove it completely, a user might be confused that the estimate is
completely lacking when he knows that it is usually there (from all the
times he looked up there and saw a real estimate). With the text
"(estimating battery life...)" he can rest assured that the anomaly is
currently being worked upon behind the scenes.

By the way, I'm using ubuntu 10.00 daily build from 2. september 2010. Sorry
I forgot to mention that..