battery plasmoid and remaining time..

[Marcos Dione]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 09:25:00AM +0200, Eduardo Robles Elvira wrote:
> we can guess the future usage and get a good
> enough predictions for most of the time. You've been using 10W+-2W for
> last 10 mins, and in 10mins the battery has decreased  2%. We can
> predict that if the battery usage continues that way and the battery %
> decreases linearly, you've got X mins left. 

    this is almost exactly what hal does, which is where we end up
digging this info.

> when we have less than X%
> of battery, we can be warier and tend to worst-case scenarios just to
> play it safe.

    this is as hard to estimate as the original problem.

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