Battery indicator goes Critical Red with 1:10 battery left
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayatana Design |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Matthew Paul Thomas | ||
| indicator-power |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| indicator-power (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubuntu-mono
Since the Ubuntu-Monochrome 0.0.26 upload, the battery status icon now goes critical red with over an hour to spare.
We need to confirm this in Ayatana-Design, but my hunch is the following would be more useful:
external power: normal text colour (ivory/chocolate for Ambiance/Radiance)
>=1:00 remaining: normal text colour
< 1:00 remaining: orange non-critical warning
<=0:10 remaining: red critical warning
<=0:02 remaining: red critical warning if suspend/hibernate action selected and proven working
<=0:02 remaining: red critical (flashing) warning if simply going to power-off
Additionally, the Ubuntu Mono 0.0.26 change uses a battery icon with no fill for empty. This is not as clear to the user as an icon that instead uses a very small fill at end of the battery, even for zero. This is more intuitive as it makes it clear that the icon is used as a percentage indicator; with an empty fill the user must already know this for "empty" to be useful as a relative indicator.
At the moment, the "Red with some left" state seen at 1:10 remaining is far more visible to the user than the (more serious) completely empty icon.
Related branches
| tags: | added: needs-design |
| description: | updated |
| summary: |
- Battery goes Critical Red with 1:10 battery left + Battery indicator goes Critical Red with 1:10 battery left |
| Nathanel Titane (nathanel.titane) wrote | #1 |
| Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in ayatana-design: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) |
| status: | New → Fix Committed |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #3 |
| affects: | ubuntu-mono (Ubuntu) → indicator-power (Ubuntu) |
| Changed in indicator-power (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Javier Jardón (jjardon) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in indicator-power: | |
| status: | New → Fix Committed |
| Changed in indicator-power: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
| Changed in indicator-power (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → In Progress |
| Changed in ayatana-design: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #5 |
| Changed in indicator-power (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
| Christoph Buchner (bilderbuchi) wrote | #6 |
| Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote | #7 |
| Christoph Buchner (bilderbuchi) wrote | #8 |
| Christoph Buchner (bilderbuchi) wrote | #9 |
you can avoid this bug by changing the gnome power referencing to percentage values instead of time ineither gconf or dconf.
the keys are as folow:
for dconf:
gsettings set org.gnome.
for gconf:
gconftool-2 --type=boolean -s /apps/gnome-
make sure you set your battery level checks to reflect proper battery percentage level for 'low', 'critical' and 'action' values
mine are respectively 15%, 10% and 5%