Yep, this is more like a regression bug than anything else. I can see that the choice has been made to protect stupid user from losing data, but this isn't how it should have been done. Add a warning dialog or something if you need to, but please let user decide on this.
It's really annoying to have a brick on your lap while knowing that there's actually 4 hours juice left on battery, it's just the $0.01 dumb chip on a two year old battery that says it's critical. Regular user shouldn't need to go to gconf-editor to work around this. Calibrating doesn't seem to be long term solution either for some batteries, and there's no easy fix for that. A workaround (at least on 10.04): Using gconf-editor, change /apps/gnome-power- manager/actions/critical_battery to "nothing". Power manager GUI does recognize this, too, unless you change it back. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/678265 Title: 'do nothing' option for critical battery removed - prevents battery calibration To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/678265/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
