Comment 3 for bug 811777
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| Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote Re: "Show Percentage Remaining" is more useful than "Show Time Remaining" | #3 |
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Vish, thanks for the comments. It's not just that the number fluctuates, but that the number is usually wrong.
The time remaining on my laptop just went from "13 hours 2 minutes" to "2 hours 4 minutes" to "1 hour 52 minutes" to "1 hour 58 minutes" within about 2 minutes time of mostly idling. I estimate this laptop gets about 2 hours of battery time. So at 50%, I have about an hour left.
I concede that there's some use for a time estimate but a percentage is nice because it only takes up about 3 characters of space on our symbolic status menu and a simple click to open the menu will show the actual time remaining. I also agree with not showing either the time or percentage by default next to the main tray icon itself but it's a nice power user feature.