Version: (using KDE 4.3.1) OS: Linux Installed from: openSUSE RPMs I have noted that my notebook does not work without power cable attached for the time it did before - it dies extremely quickly, even after charging it for 100%, but could not guess why this might happen. I have occasionly started gnome power manager applet and it immediately showed me the message "your battery has a very low capacity (9%), which means that it may be old or broken". I have been working with kde for a long time, but it did not give me such useful message - now I know I should buy a new battery and my system is not guilty in extra power consumption.
I would be verny nice at least to show max mAh and last full capacity (perhaps in percent) I'm talking about information of /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info These are my stats: design capacity: 7800 mAh last full capacity: 3593 mAh I Would like to see a notify like "Your battery health has decreased. Last charging could only charge till 46%" Cause this would popup every charge perhaps with an option to "not show again". In addition powermanger should contain this info (like the one from xfce has...) when i click the battery plasmoid. On your boards that was mentioned a while ago: http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=9113 cheers, felix
uh, new impression. just do apt-get install lxde, login and see how nice the battery "applet" is. graphs, notify on broken battery, all i ever wanted. why does a leightweight desktop have so nice features and kde just a un-communicative applet? space for improvements! ;)
SVN commit 1195232 by dafre: BUG: 218546 Notify when a battery's capacity is below 50% or the battery has been recalled from the HW vendor. M +38 -0 daemon/powerdevilcore.cpp M +1 -0 daemon/powerdevilcore.h M +7 -0 powerdevil.notifyrc WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1195232