Version: (using Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources seems like it would be useful to only show one specific battery, for people who have batteries they don't care about or perhaps don't want both batteries stuck together in the same applet.
Considering bug 156078 this should be expanded to a subset of batteries and not only one. So if someone has 2 laptop batteries plus a MX1000 mouse (==3 batteries shown), only the 2 laptop batteries might be of interest.
then they could add two battery widgets and set each to one of the batteries they're interested in. I'm not convinced that it's worth it to support every possible configuration in one widget.
I would think that the most common use case for the battery applet is for people to have 1 place to figure out how much power they have left in their laptop and thus a place to figure out how long the power will last. If you happen to have a device that reports its power, this becomes impossible for users with 2 battery bays. Either they have two batteries showing or they have one cumulative display that includes the mouse battery.
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 03:21:45 Christoph Burger-Scheidlin wrote: > I would think that the most common use case for the battery applet is for > people to have 1 place to figure out how much power they have left in their > laptop and thus a place to figure out how long the power will last. If you > happen to have a device that reports its power, this becomes impossible for > users with 2 battery bays. Either they have two batteries showing or they > have one cumulative display that includes the mouse battery. Yes, we should definitely only cumulate the charge percentage of batteries of the same type. That means adding a battery type to the powermanagement engine, and respecting that in the applet. I'll have a look.
in my case it would be usefull as I have only one physical battery but widget somehow sees 2 betteries. so the maximum I can have is 50% of charge shown although I have my battery 100% charged
I have the same problem Sebastian has. I only have one battery, but my system supports 2 so it seems that the hardware reports there are two when only one of them really exists.
Fixed in trunk, please verify with at least 4.1.73 if this still exists. In that case, reopen so we can have another look.