Comment 38 for bug 399492

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
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> 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
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> 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.
>