* H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email protected]> [171018 05:49]: > > Am 18.10.2017 um 14:28 schrieb Pavel Machek <[email protected]>: > > > > So I started something, it is at. > > > > https://github.com/pavelmachek/libbattery > > > > My battery on n900 is currently uncalibrated (and charging), still it > > gets some kind of estimation: > > > > Battery -1 % > > Seconds -1 > > State 1 > > Voltage 3.88 V > > Battery 63 % > > > > Of course, there's a lot more work to be done. > > Nice start but not a solution to our problem. > > Our problem is that people simply expect that for example > https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/xfce/xfce4-battery-plugin > displays the battery percentage.
I think we could make things compatible with various battery apps by having libbattery write back the capacity percentage and time remaining to the kernel driver via sysfs or a dev entry. Then the kernel interface can just display the data to whatever apps. Regards, Tony
