Comment 75 for bug 629258
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| Frederik Elwert (frederik-elwert) wrote | #75 |
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João, I have the same situation you describe on my Dell Mini 9. So in my opinion, there are currently two issues:
* g-p-m has no estimates about the remaining battery *time*. This seems to be because of lacking ACPI information, if I understood it correctly. This could be solved by calculating these estimates in g-p-m, but this is probably not trivial.
* The second issue is how the battery indicator deals with this situation. Currently, it simply shows “estimating…” forever, but never comes around with estimated values. I think if it cannot get the remaining battery *time*, it should resort to displaying the battery *charge* (percentage). This is probably much easier to implement and would give at least any usable value, instead of the useless “estimating…”. And, if I recall correctly, this was the behavior in Lucid.
So if it is not possible to resolve the issue of getting the time estimates in the short term, I’d suggest to resort to the values that *are* available (as the charge percentage).