Bug#456280: gnome-power-manager: g-p-m doesn't take all batteries into account for remaining time estimation

[Thomas Morin]

Package: gnome-power-manager
Version: 2.20.1-1
Severity: important

Gnome-power-manager properly shows all batteries, but the estimation of 
the remaining uptime seem to only take into account the first one.

For instance, my laptop has two batteries : the built-in one, and an 
additional one. When the builtin battery is 2% and the additional 
battery is 98%, g-p-m will estimate the remaining uptime to only a few 
minutes (though the additional battery actually provides a few hours).

In such a situation, by default, the result is worse that just having a 
very wrong estimation and having warnings pop up uselessly, because 
g-p-m will decide to hibernate or shutdown the laptop when only a few 
minutes remain.

The only workaround to avoid having the laptop hibernate at this point 
(AFAIK) is to disable the hibernate on low battery config via gconf, 
which the majority of users obviously don't know about.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.9
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-power-manager depends on:
ii  gconf2                  2.20.1-1         GNOME configuration 
database syste
ii  hal                     0.5.10-4         Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  libart-2.0-2            2.3.19-3         Library of functions for 2D 
graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.20.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0            2.20.1-1         Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0          2.20.0-1         The Bonobo UI library
hi  libc6                   2.7-3            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2               1.4.10-1.1       The Cairo 2D vector 
graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.1.2-1          simple interprocess 
messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.74-1           simple interprocess 
messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1          2.5.0-2          generic font configuration 
library
ii  libfreetype6            2.3.5-1+b1       FreeType 2 font engine, 
shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4             2.20.1-1         GNOME configuration 
database syste
ii  libglade2-0             1:2.6.2-1        library to load .glade 
files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.14.4-2         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0       2.20.2-1         GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0             2.20.1.1-1       The GNOME 2 library - 
runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0       2.20.1.1-1       A powerful object-oriented 
display
ii  libgnomeui-0            2.20.1.1-1       The GNOME 2 libraries (User 
Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0          1:2.20.1-1       GNOME Virtual File System 
(runtime
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0      0.10.15-3        Core GStreamer libraries 
and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.12.3-1         The GTK+ graphical user 
interface
ii  libhal1                 0.5.10-4         Hardware Abstraction Layer 
- share
ii  libice6                 2:1.0.4-1        X11 Inter-Client Exchange 
library
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1- 0.4.4-3          sends desktop notifications 
to a n
ii  liborbit2               1:2.14.7-0.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a 
CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0      2.20.2-2         library for GNOME Panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.19.1-1         Layout and rendering of 
internatio
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.15~beta5-3   PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0                1.10-3           lib for parsing cmdline 
parameters
ii  libsm6                  2:1.0.3-1+b1     X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notification 0.9-1            library for program launch 
feedbac
ii  libwnck22               2.20.2-1         Window Navigator 
Construction Kit
ii  libx11-6                2:1.1.3-1        X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1             1:1.1.9-1        X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                1:1.0.3-2        X11 miscellaneous extension 
librar
ii  libxfixes3              1:4.0.3-2        X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' 
extensio
ii  libxi6                  2:1.1.3-1        X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1            1:1.0.2-1        X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                 2.6.30.dfsg-3    GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2              2:1.2.2-1        X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1             1:0.9.4-1        X Rendering Extension 
client libra
ii  notification-daemon     0.3.7-1+b1       a daemon that displays 
passive pop
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-7 compression library - runtime

gnome-power-manager recommends no packages.

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