Bug#432892: gnome-applets: Battery status should use ac power adaptor instead of charing/discharging to indicate wehter we're on battery or not.

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 22:41 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> It seems that for some reason the battery charge monitor applet
> (/usr/lib/gnome-applets/battstat-applet-2?) is only looking at the
> battery status, and based on that decides if I'm on battery or ac power.
> It seems to do that based on the charging/discharging, which isn't the
> same thing.
> 
> Instead it should be checking ac_adaptor
> (/proc/acpi/ac_adaptor/AC/state) to check that.
> 
> I'm currently using version 2.18.0-4, but I've been seeing this problem
> for a long time.

Hi,

AFAIK, the battery applet should use HAL now, but there seems to be a
few problems with it, for example
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315943

Is this the problem on your system?

> PS: There now seems to be a gnome-power-manger, which seems to do it
> correctly.

True, g-p-m is where the action is.

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Sven Arvidsson
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