On 9/13/2013 12:43 PM, Peter wrote:
On 13/09/13 21:18, John Andersen wrote:
Also, the widget does different things when plugged in than it does when running on battery. When it says full charge while on the mains, unplug it, and withing a few seconds the widget will fall from 100% to what ever your battery can handle given its present age.
That's the thing though. It (the widget) was behaving like that until last week, but twice this week when I unplugged and switched to battery power it started at a full 100%. So it seems the widget's behaviour has recently been changed.
For me, it takes the widget 2 to 10 seconds to jump down from 100% to the "true" percent. After you've done this once in any given boot, it seems to instantly jump to the "true" percent. This widget seems to have a bifurcated personality.
Oh, and another thing. Upon boot up after a "full charge", (that is, charged till the charging circuit gave and called it full) if the battery does not approach some substantial percentage of its designed capacity, you will get a pop-up notification that the battery needs replacement.
Are you talking about KDE here? I'm not sure I like the sound of that. This laptop I've got hold of may be a bit old but it was renowned in its time for its good battery life and has the maximum 9-cell version installed, which in theory would give about 6 hours or more of life when new. That means that at 47% it would still be giving me around 3 hours, which was the very most I ever got, initially, from my old machine. So for me that's good and not worth chucking, and hence an annoying popup on every blasted boot nagging me about it is the sort of thing that turned me off using Windows a decade ago. That sort of bullshit should at least be configurable in KDE. Tweaking everything to be just right is KDE is so good at.
Hey, calm down, ;-) its a tiny pop-up that appears near the system tray, and goes away after a few seconds. You don't have to respond to it. Further, like I mentioned, it only happens on first boot from power off. I virtually never power off any more, I just suspend. The machine will several last days on suspend, and resume is almost instant, so why would I want to actually shut it off... I suppose you can kill it off by hacking ~/.kde4/share/config/powerdevil.notifyrc and removing brokenbattery segment entirely. This seems to be hardcoded for anthing less than 50% in the current version of powerdevilcore.cpp https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/111768/diff/?expand=1 also here: https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file?file=powerdevil_46branchupdate.diff&package=kdebase4-wallpapers&project=home%3Asaroengels%3Abranches%3AKDE%3ADistro%3AStable&rev=72014d888633dfc8d138a26656243711 -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org