Comments on: Good News for multiple battery KDE users

By: sebas

sebas — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:14:56 +0000

Yes, in fact just yesterday I thought that that might be a better idea. We can probably get rid of the config option that way as well. I’ve some (internal) relayouting planned anyway, so I might pick this up then.

By: murrant

murrant — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:00:13 +0000

Hey sebas have you ever considered using one icon for the task tray/widget, but showing all battery info in the popup/tooltip?

Most of the time I just want to see how much battery I have left, I don’t care about the individual batteries, if I do I am willing to take the time to mouse over or click on the widget. Just something to consider.

Thanks!

By: sebas

sebas — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:52:14 +0000

That won’t be a problem. The wallpaper is probably fully GNOME-compatible. :)

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:33:03 +0000

@Sebas: I was not planning to abuse your blog as a bug system, don’t worry.

Thank you anyways for your work on this widget and KDE itself.

By: Nece228

Nece228 — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:47:21 +0000

Well if you will not say what wallpaper you are using then i will switch to GNOME. How about that? I’m pretty sure that you don’t want to lose one more KDE user :]

By: sebas

sebas — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:05:58 +0000

That feature is already there, but it’s a hidden config option since the time estimation you get is never reliable.

http://vizzzion.org/blog/2009/11/battery-improvements-in-kde-plasma-4-4/

By: sebas

sebas — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:04:21 +0000

I don’t have any plans for that right now.

It’s outside the scope of the battery applet, since laptops don’t usually have a UPS (well, not a real one, anyway).

By: sebas

sebas — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:03:20 +0000

Unfortunately, it’s not that easy. You’ll have to read more posts of mine (future ones), and I might give it away. Some day. Maybe. ;-)

By: sebas

sebas — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:02:37 +0000

Supposedly, if it works for two, it’ll work for more than two as well. Not that I’ve ever seen hardware like that …

By: gadnio

gadnio — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:59:29 +0000

Hey!
That’s great news… My laptop’s going to use this extensively and… I really like it.
However, I’ve been asking here and there without any real help ’round… about UPS support. We’ve got NUT (http://www.networkupstools.org/), which is nice, cool and has all the monitoring we need. However, it lacks slick support in KDE. Since I cannot do it myself, I’ll try here… at least to get some opinion. Is there any plan for including UPS support in KDE (for the desktop users).. and power profiles.. for battery saving purposes?