KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/battery

[David Nolden]

Am Samstag 06 Juni 2009 14:03:37 schrieb Marco Martin:
> On Saturday 06 June 2009, David Nolden wrote:
> > Am Samstag 06 Juni 2009 03:02:37 schrieb Sebastian Kügler:
> > > I've disabled this feature for now since it doesn't work well enough
> > > in a lot of cases. For those that really can't live without that
> > > information, you can still enable it in the config, add a line such
> > > as:
> >
> > Btw. please disable desktop composition completely, and make it opt-in
> > for geeks using a config-file. "It doesn't work well enough in a lot of
> > cases." ;-)
>
> just to be clear: for composite is required the drivers to not be crap
> for have a corret % charge also the drivers to not be crap
> for have an accurate remaining time prediction it's required to read the
> future (and the reasons was clearly stated many threads ago). a kinda
> different order of magnitude as a problem, isn't it? :p

The discussion yielded clearly that, given that the drivers work correctly, 
most users are happy with the linear prediction, and it is "well enough". What 
is "well enough" is relative to the users mind, and it is defined by the user, 
not by a single one of us.

So the "does not work well enough in many cases" can only be related to driver 
problems.