Bug#518650: The battery level tray icon could display the current level more clearly.
Daniel Burrows
dburrows at debian.org
Sat Mar 7 17:16:56 UTC 2009
Package: gnome-power-manager
Version: 2.22.1-4
Severity: normal
The Gnome battery level icon displays its level as a "cut-off
cylinder": instead of being flat, the top of the bar is an oval.
This makes it hard to estimate how much atter is actually
available, since it's not clear whether the top, center, or bottom
of the oval is the actual measurement. I'm pretty sure it's the
center, which leads me to the second problem: because the top and
body of the cylinder are the same color, it's easy to glance at the
meter and think that it's nearly full because most of the bar is blue,
when in fact the battery level has fallen to 60% or even 50%.
I think that it would be better to just use a rectangle to
display this information.
Daniel
-- Package-specific info:
Distro version: 5.0
Kernel version: 2.6.26-1-686
g-p-m version: 2.22.1
HAL version: 0.5.11
System manufacturer: missing
System version: missing
System product: missing
AC adapter present: yes
Battery present: yes
Laptop panel present: yes
CPU scaling present: no
Battery Information:
battery.charge_level.current = 31645 (0x7b9d) (int)
battery.charge_level.design = 49994 (0xc34a) (int)
battery.charge_level.last_full = 48087 (0xbbd7) (int)
battery.charge_level.percentage = 65 (0x41) (int)
battery.charge_level.rate = 10052 (0x2744) (int)
battery.is_rechargeable = true (bool)
battery.model = '901' (string)
battery.present = true (bool)
battery.rechargeable.is_charging = false (bool)
battery.rechargeable.is_discharging = true (bool)
battery.remaining_time = 11333 (0x2c45) (int)
battery.reporting.current = 4165 (0x1045) (int)
battery.reporting.design = 6580 (0x19b4) (int)
battery.reporting.last_full = 6329 (0x18b9) (int)
battery.reporting.rate = 1323 (0x52b) (int)
battery.reporting.technology = 'Li-ion' (string)
battery.reporting.unit = 'mAh' (string)
battery.serial = '' (string)
battery.technology = 'lithium-ion' (string)
battery.type = 'primary' (string)
battery.vendor = 'ASUS' (string)
battery.voltage.current = 7598 (0x1dae) (int)
battery.voltage.design = 8400 (0x20d0) (int)
battery.voltage.unit = 'mV' (string)
GNOME Power Manager Process Information:
daniel 9196 0.0 0.1 4392 1476 pts/2 S+ 09:08 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /usr/share/gnome-power
daniel 3082 0.0 1.7 66572 18316 ? Ss 07:01 0:01 gnome-power-manager
HAL Process Information:
102 2493 0.0 0.3 6256 3936 ? Ss 06:58 0:02 /usr/sbin/hald
root 2494 0.0 0.1 3256 1036 ? S 06:58 0:00 \_ hald-runner
root 2528 0.0 0.1 3324 1028 ? S 06:58 0:00 \_ hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/in
102 2532 0.0 0.0 2272 936 ? S 06:58 0:00 \_ hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid so
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages gnome-power-manager depends on:
ii dbus-x11 1.2.12-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii gconf2 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii hal 0.5.11-8 Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.20-2 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.22.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.22.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.22.0-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.8.6-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.12-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.80-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libfontconfig1 2.6.0-3 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.7-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgconf2-4 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.3-1 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.18.4-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-keyring0 2.22.3-2 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome2-0 2.20.1.1-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.20.1.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.20.1.1-2 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.22.0-5 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.22-2 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.12-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libhal1 0.5.11-8 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libnotify1 [libnotify1 0.4.4-3 sends desktop notifications to a n
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.16-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpanel-applet2-0 2.20.3-5 library for GNOME Panel applets
ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.5-3 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.33-2 PNG library - runtime
ii libpopt0 1.14-4 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 2:1.1.0-2 X11 Session Management library
ii libwnck22 2.22.3-1 Window Navigator Construction Kit
ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii libxi6 2:1.2.0-2 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-5 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.3-1 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-2 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii notification-daemon 0.3.7-1+b1 a daemon that displays passive pop
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
gnome-power-manager recommends no packages.
gnome-power-manager suggests no packages.
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