One Hundred Papercuts

"Battery Discharging" is a horribly worded message

Bug #530751 reported by Michael Forrest on 2010-03-02

This bug affects 13 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
One Hundred Papercuts	Fix Released	Low	Unassigned
gnome-power	New	Wishlist	gnome-bugs #611982
gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

It makes me worry that my battery is leaking 'discharge' all over the inside of my computer.

When the battery is fully charged it should say "battery full" or "battery charged".

When the power is disconnected it should say "Running on battery"

Please stop telling me about all this discharge that's going everywhere.

Related branches

lp:~alexlauni/ubuntu/lucid/gnome-power-manager/gpm-fix-530751

Rejected for merging into lp:ubuntu/lucid/gnome-power-manager

Michael Terry: Needs Fixing (ubuntu-sponsor) on 2010-12-22

James Westby (community): Abstain on 2010-03-12

Chris Coulson: Pending requested 2010-03-12

Michael Forrest (michaelforrest) on 2010-03-02

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
milestone:	none → lucid-round-8

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Matt Perry (mp) wrote on 2010-03-02:

If someone can point me to the relevant package, I should be able to create a patch before Thursday's UI freeze.

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Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense) wrote on 2010-03-02:

This is an issue in GNOME Power Manager. I'm marking this bug as Triaged because it needs to further actions from Bug Control. The status is set to Low since this is a usability issue that might discombobulate users and therefore is more than a Wishlist.

Changed in gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Low
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Triaged

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2010-03-02:

This bug is an upstream one and it would be quite helpful if somebody experiencing it could send the bug the to the people writing the software. You can learn more about how to do this for various upstreams at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream. Thanks in advance!

Changed in gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
status:	Triaged → Incomplete

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Vish (vish) wrote on 2010-03-02:

The current wording is as per the notify-osd specs > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD#gnome-power-manager

Assigning to mpt , to confirm if this needs to be altered. [again]

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
assignee:	nobody → Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
status:	Triaged → Incomplete

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Vish (vish) wrote on 2010-03-02:

Also see , relevant bug , Bug #399492 where the current change was done for the last papercut cycle.

Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense) on 2010-03-02

Changed in gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Confirmed

Angel Abad (angelabad) on 2010-03-06

Changed in gnome-power:
importance:	Undecided → Unknown
status:	New → Unknown

Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) on 2010-03-06

Changed in gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

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Alex Launi (alexlauni) wrote on 2010-03-07:

I felt like I should add that Discharge is an awesome band, and maybe there should be an option in gconf for people who love d-beat and want to be reminded every time they unplug their laptop..

Alex Launi (alexlauni) on 2010-03-08

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status:	Incomplete → In Progress

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote on 2010-03-08:

I'm sorry I didn't see this before User Interface Freeze. I agree that "discharging" is an unpleasant way of putting it. The original proposal in bug 399492 didn't use that word; I don't know how it ended up like that.

I agree with Michael that "Running on battery" is better. I've changed it in the NotifyOSD spec. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD?action=diff&rev2=198&rev1=197> (But if Ubuntu no longer diverges from upstream gnome-power-manager in notifications, someone please tell me, and I'll remove that section altogether. In the long run the NotifyOSD specification should be about the notification system itself, not about the exact notifications every program should have.)

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2010-03-08:

I'll take this one, as I'll probably have another change to upload tomorrow anyway. Alex - would you mind please sending an e-mail to the ubuntu-translators mailing list to make them aware of the change, as the change will require translating in every language.

Thanks

Changed in gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu):
assignee:	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) → Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2010-03-16:

I didn't see any mail to the ubuntu-translators list yet, and we're at the stage now where this needs an ACK from the release team anyway. Someone feel free to push that along to get this change in

Changed in gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu):
assignee:	Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) → nobody

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Flávio Etrusco (etrusco) wrote on 2010-03-16:

#10

In some notebooks with crappy BIOS - i.e. mine - this message actually can make sense - in an annoying way -, because the ACPI (?) reports the battery is discharging even for the "natural" discharge, while the notebook is plugged.

Vish (vish) on 2010-06-10

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
milestone:	lucid-round-8 → maverick-round-7-notifications+gtk

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-09-16

Changed in gnome-power:
importance:	Unknown → Wishlist
status:	Unknown → New

Vish (vish) on 2010-11-23

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
milestone:	maverick-round-7-notifications+gtk → nt3-ayatana

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) on 2010-12-01

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
assignee:	Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) → nobody

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Michael Terry (mterry) wrote on 2010-12-22:

#11

The attached branch needs fixes. I'm unsubscribing ubuntu-sponsors until it is fixed. Please resubscribe when it is!

Timothy Arceri (t-fridey) on 2011-09-13

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status:	In Progress → Confirmed

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Timothy Arceri (t-fridey) wrote on 2012-06-09:

#12

I have not seen this message since before Oneiric. I no longer get any message when unplugging my netbook. Can anyone confirm if they still get this message?