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 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
