Bug#432892: gnome-applets: Battery status should use ac power adaptor instead of charing/discharging to indicate wehter we're on battery or not.

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:49:25PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> AFAIK, the battery applet should use HAL now, but there seems to be a
> few problems with it, for example
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315943
> 
> Is this the problem on your system?

This looks like the problem I'm seeing.  But I think it's wrong to blame
the BIOS/ACPI for this.  I would actually claim that we have a BIOS that
does the right thing.  The battery is not being charged, because it's
full, so it's discharging.  Either you're charging, or you're
discharging.  If you keep charging you will break the battery.  So it's
rightfully claiming it's discharging.

It discharging very slowly.  In the state file it says 0 mA, but it's
probably something like 1 mA, something it can't really measure.  If it
keeps plugged in for days, you see that it discharges about 1% per day.
Which in this case would be 33.6 mAh, which would give about 1.4 mA.

Like I said before, it's checking the wrong acpi information, it should
check the ac adapter instead, which gives the right information.  There
really is a reason why those are actually 2 different variables.


Kurt