Ubuntu
gnome-power-manager package

  1. Bug #678265
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 678265

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Tuomo Kohvakka (tuomo-kohvakka) wrote :

Yep, this is more like a regression bug than anything else. I can see that the choice has been made to protect stupid user from losing data, but this isn't how it should have been done. Add a warning dialog or something if you need to, but please let user decide on this.

It's really annoying to have a brick on your lap while knowing that there's actually 4 hours juice left on battery, it's just the $0.01 dumb chip on a two year old battery that says it's critical. Regular user shouldn't need to go to gconf-editor to work around this.

Calibrating doesn't seem to be long term solution either for some batteries, and there's no easy fix for that.

A workaround (at least on 10.04):

Using gconf-editor, change /apps/gnome-power-manager/actions/critical_battery to "nothing". Power manager GUI does recognize this, too, unless you change it back.