Re: Power management capacity dialog removed in F13

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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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