[Kde-hardware-devel] Review Request 108894: [Draft] Add Battery OSD that allows the user to quickly peak into the battery percentage any time

[Kai Uwe Broulik]

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Review request for Solid.


Description
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This draft patch is for adding a Battery OSD the user can trigger using Meta+B any time to show the battery percentage anytime without disrupting the workflow. My usecase for this is when I am watching fullscreen flash videos, they cause quite some drain on battery, but when I want to look how much battery is left, I have to either leave fullscreen and peak, or (as I do) press some shortcut assigned to the battery widget. Both will cause the fullscreen to exit. Even more useful when playing a fullscreen game that you don't want (or can) to leave.
This adds a little OSD similar to the brightness OSD that shows the battery percentage when the user presses Meta+B.

This patch is draft because I first wanted to know your opinion on this before I start completing it (ie. showing the battery icon in the same way the battery widget does), atm it's the brightness icon.


Diffs
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  powerdevil/daemon/powerdevilcore.h dd5d674 
  powerdevil/daemon/powerdevilcore.cpp 6be6a8b 
  powerdevil/daemon/actions/bundled/brightnesscontrol.cpp 323905d 
  powerdevil/daemon/actions/bundled/keyboardbrightnesscontrol.cpp 8249b17 
  powerdevil/daemon/brightnessosdwidget.h 40166d4 
  powerdevil/daemon/brightnessosdwidget.cpp 1474018 
  powerdevil/daemon/powerdevilbackendinterface.h 00ccada 

Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/108894/diff/


Testing
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When I press Meta+B I get an OSD showing my current battery percentage.


File Attachments
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Battery OSD
  http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2013/02/10/batteryosd.png


Thanks,

Kai Uwe Broulik

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