SUMMARY The text "Battery running low - to continue using your computer, plug it in or shut it down and change the battery" seems rather outdated. Pretty much no new laptop in the last few years has a user-changeable battery, making the message seem jarring to modern audiences. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Wait until the battery is 10% or lower 2. View the notification OBSERVED RESULT Notification text is "Battery running low - to continue using your computer, plug it in or shut it down and change the battery." EXPECTED RESULT Notification text something like "Battery running low - to continue using your computer, plug it in." SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230620 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.107.0 Qt Version: 5.15.10 Kernel Version: 6.3.7-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 620 Manufacturer: HP Product Name: HP ProBook 450 G4 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION In an ideal world, it would be nice if there was some way of detecting whether a device has a user-changeable battery, but in the absence of that, I think the above suggestion is a better default. I'm sure the wording can be improved further. Thanks!
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/powerdevil/-/merge_requests/231
Git commit f211d3952f771d38a44a2370c5fa174c4929dc94 by Nate Graham. Committed on 02/09/2023 at 18:23. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. Shorten Low and Critical battery notification text We don't need to be so verbose to get the point across, and we also don't need to repeat the title in the body. Let's shorten these messages to make sure people actually read them. FIXED-IN: 6.0 M +6 -7 daemon/powerdevilcore.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/powerdevil/-/commit/f211d3952f771d38a44a2370c5fa174c4929dc94