battery applet - charge time instead of charge percentage.

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Tuesday 06 January 2009 18:08:50 Marcos Dione wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 03:32:04AM +0100, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 January 2009 01:14:03 Marcos Dione wrote:
> > >     the third one is avoidable, really. I coded it so when the battery
> > > is fully charged it shows 'Charged' instead of 0:00. the problem is
> > > that right now it doesn't set its width (not again!) so the tect fits.
> > > this can be 'solved' just removing an simple if until I hack the final
> > > code.
> >
> > Hm, are you sure it makes sense to show the time when it's plugged in? Is
> > that actually the "time remaining until fully charged"? I looked at
> > getting this information some time ago, but I think I couldn't find it
> > ...
>
>     it seems to be that, yes, but is not accurate. right now my NB is
> recharging after a disconnected and hibernated night. the light shows it
> has already finished, but the applet shows 0:05. maybe it's because the
> data hasn't updated yet (in hal or solid or the powerdevil dataengine),
> but while I was typing this mail it changed to 'Charged' and to 0:05
> back again and to Charged again. I think the smoothing that Chani
> proposes should be the next step after I clean the patch as you sugeest.

Yeah, but it should be done in Solid, at least. Not in the applet...

> > - the changes in updateStatus() seem a bit random, and I don't grok all
> > of them, would be good if it was removed.
>
>     ack. I have to figure out exactly when to update so the view doesn't
> lag behind the events.
>
> > - Making the label wider than 4 chars starts to randomly stretch it. We
> > need a way to keep that label small and clean. Definitely no localized
> > string though. Remember that the applet as such is supposed to work at
> > small sizes like 22x22 pixels (maybe you can make it display more
> > information only when there's enough space?)
>
>     ok, I'll be more careful about this.
>
> > - Cleanup of commented stuff and debugging
>
>     sure. I wish we already had a DVCS :|
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sebas

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