Power management capacity dialog removed in F13
Mika Kuusela
mku at lists.mail.kapsi.fi
Mon May 31 02:16:55 UTC 2010
On Sun, 2010-05-30 at 17:17 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> In F12, the left mouse button over the battery icon opened a dropped down
> menu with a "Laptop battery" menu entry. Selecting the menu entry opened a
> small dialog with the battery's details, specifically the battery's current
> capacity, in watts, its original capacity, in watts, and its current charge,
> in watts. Also its manufacturer's name. Basically, a few more details than a
> single capacity percentage.
>
> In F13, selecting "Laptop battery" from the same menu, does nothing. That
> information is no longer being shown. Why?
>
> Once a day, or so, F12's power management applet went haywire on me, and for
> some reason insisted that my battery's capacity is somewhere around a
> thousand watts. Its current charge still showed correctly, but because of
> the huge capacity, the applet was showing the battery at a ridiculous 1-2%
> capacity level. When that happened, I could always open the battery dialog,
> get its actual charge in watts, and have a pretty good idea how much juice
> there's left in my battery.
>
> So far, F13's power management applet has not lost its mind, and is
> apparently reading the battery capacity correctly, but if it goes bonkers
> again, I won't have a good read on my battery.
>
> Anyone know why the battery information dialog has been removed?
It has been reported to bugzilla, but so far there's no comments from
the maintainer.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596233
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