Here are several reasons why "percent remaining" is a useful statistic:
--Power consumption varies, making "time remaining" less accurate. Yes, if we
can improve the estimate, then by all means, we should do so, but that doesn't
change the fact that percent remaining is more precise and accurate
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Status: Incomplete => Opinion
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Ok, fair enough. I personally prefer the percentage but perhaps the
design goals are different & perhaps time left (if it works) is more
useful than a percentage. I'll quote my original report for the only
support I have for my opinion:
"This is in contrast to how other OS's work. My Android phone
The summary of this bug report says "'Show Percentage Remaining' is more
useful than 'Show Time Remaining'". As far as I can tell, though, this
bug report does not contain any evidence for that, and doesn't even
contain any evidence that showing the percentage is useful at all. For
that reason, I'm
NotifyOSD shows time and percent, e.g. screenshot, time remaining 16
min. in battery state 17%.
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Percent doesn't tell me how much time is left, which is rather human language
(similar to df -h).
I don't experience fluctuance here, notebook usually has ~2:30 after fully
charged (which is less due to Bug #760131) and is mostly consistent with conky,
in between offset sometimes 1-5 minut
>From IRC:
tedg> And I think we should fix upower to better time instead of going
back to percentage.
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"Show Percentage Remaining" is more
Vish, thanks for the comments. It's not just that the number fluctuates,
but that the number is usually wrong.
The time remaining on my laptop just went from "13 hours 2 minutes" to
"2 hours 4 minutes" to "1 hour 52 minutes" to "1 hour 58 minutes" within
about 2 minutes time of mostly idling. I es
Not really sure how you are basing the "more useful" here, but I'd have to
disagree with the current bug report.
What is the first thought that pops into your head when you see " NN%
remaining"?
Alteast, in my head it is, "oh! that would be approximately nn mins left or
maybe something closer"
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Status: New
** Also affects: ayatana-design
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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