Re: [gpm] critical shutdown to low & not adjustable

[Ralf Mörler <usenet go4more de>]

Hi,

Am Donnerstag, den 16.03.2006, 22:16 +0000 schrieb Richard Hughes:
> On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 22:56 +0100, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 21:47 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 22:39 +0100, Ralf M�r wrote:

[snip]

> > > I'm in two minds about how we should fix this: should we auto-compute
> > > the values based on the size of the battery (probably ideal, but only
> > > available for acpi, and mediocre support at that) or just push these
> > > into gconf.
> > > 
> > > I'm erring on the latter at the moment.

Yes gconf is a good idea.
 
> > > Comments?
> > > 
> > I would go for the gconf settings. In an ideal world the time based
> > stuff just works. If not we probably also can't trust doing any
> > calculations for determining the percentage automatically
> 
> Sure, sounds good.
> 
> What about this as a sample schema:
> 
> key:battery_low_percentage
> default:10
> desc:Percentage is considered low
> ldesc:The percentage of the battery when it is considered low
> 
> key:battery_very_low_percentage
> default:5
> 
> key:battery_critical_percentage
> default:2
> 
> key:battery_action_percentage
> default:1

IMO for the normal user who knows nothing about gconf these values may
be a problem if the laptop's battery is getting older. Why not setting
this to 3% and the others according to that a little bit higher.

low             = 12%
very low        = 8%
critical        = 5%
critical action = 3%

I'm not waiting for 3% to appear, I'm charging at about 10% because I
read something about not to go to the bitter end. The LION gets hurt on
this.
Yes, I know and this is not an invitation on discussing battery handling
of different people, just my subjective 2ct ;-)

> key:battery_low_remaining_time
> default:1200
> desc:The time remaining when low
> ldesc:The time remaining in seconds of the battery when it is considered
> low
> 
> key:battery_very_low_remaining_time
> default:600
> 
> key:battery_critical_remaining_time
> default:300
> 
> key:battery_action_remaining_time
> default:120
> 
> key:laptop_panel_dim_brightness
> default:30
> desc:The brightness of the screen when session idle
> ldesc:This is the laptop panel screen brightness when the session is
> idle
> 
> Any better ideas or wording replacements?

There should be only one Option to set, the percentage or the time.
Both things might confuse because they have to match.
I don't know the time left on 5%. I have to wait for GPM to display
this ;-)
OK I know where I have to look for the values and I may be able to
calculate the remaining time on specific charge values but....

Ralf

> Richard.
> 
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