Bug 447644 - Device battery notifications should be critical
Summary: Device battery notifications should be critical
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Powerdevil
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: master
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Keywords: usability
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Reported: 2021-12-29 14:30 UTC by Nicolas Fella
Modified: 2022-01-12 00:51 UTC (History)
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Description Nicolas Fella 2021-12-29 14:30:15 UTC 
When the battery of a connected device is running low there is a notification about that. However that notification disappears after a while.

The notification should be persistent/critical just like the notification for the builtin battery
Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2021-12-29 14:47:30 UTC 
Not sure. But I can see that the mouse randomly stopping to work during a presentation would be bad.

Hello Nicolas, patches welcome :p
Comment 2 David Edmundson 2021-12-29 22:17:03 UTC 
As a data point, I have a battery powered mouse, the warning comes about a week before I need to charge it.
If we were to make it persistent, it might be good to have a much lower threshold as to when it applies. These devices aren't in the region of hours like laptops are.
Comment 3 Nicolas Fella 2021-12-29 22:19:44 UTC 
As another data point, I have a bluetooth speaker that at 10 percent (that's when I get the warning) will last a couple of minutes. It also seems to only report in 10% steps, so any lower threshold wouldn't work for that device
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2022-01-12 00:51:03 UTC 
I would lean on the side of making it critical if only because unexpectedly losing power to a connected device is much more annoying (and potentially consequential) then the annoyance of dismissing a notification.