Bug#245001: gnome-cpufreq-applet: monitoring the system power consumption

[Mario Di Raimondo]

Package: gnome-cpufreq-applet
Version: 0.1.2-1
Severity: wishlist

I discovered that into the /proc filesystem there is a file
with a really useful information for the people that try 
to maintain to the minimum the power consumption of the system:
the instant power rate of the battery, more specifically:

$ cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state 
present:                 yes
capacity state:          ok
charging state:          discharging
present rate:            18414 mW
remaining capacity:      29894 mWh
present voltage:         11340 mV

The line 'present rate' reports the actual power consumption rate
and could be a nice feature of gnome-cpufreq-applet to report this
information into the tooltips and/or graphycally into its icon.

thanks
Mario

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.4-smeagol
Locale: LANG=it_IT@euro, LC_CTYPE=it_IT@euro

Versions of packages gnome-cpufreq-applet depends on:
ii  gconf2                      2.4.0.1-4    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libart-2.0-2                2.3.16-3     Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.4.1-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0               0.2.6-3      Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.4.3-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0              2.4.3-2      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libesd-alsa0 [libesd0]      0.2.29-1     Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - 
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.4.0.1-4    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt1                  1.1.12-4     LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0                 2.0.1-6      Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.2.3-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.4.0-9      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0           2.4.0-3      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0                2.4.0.1-10   The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0              2.4.1-5      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnomevfs2-common         2.4.1-5      The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls7                  0.8.12-5     GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.2.4-3      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                     4.3.0-7      Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                   6b-9         The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.8.3-2    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0          2.4.2-4      Library for GNOME 2 Panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.2.5-2.1    Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                    1.7-4        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                      4.3.0-7      X Window System Session Management
ii  libtasn1-0                  0.1.2-1      Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libx11-6                    4.3.0-7      X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2                     2.6.8-1      GNOME XML library
ii  scrollkeeper                0.3.14-7     A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  xlibs                       4.3.0-7      X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1-5    compression library - runtime

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