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 estimate this laptop gets about 2 hours of battery time. So at 50%, I have about an hour left. I concede that there's some use for a time estimate but a percentage is nice because it only takes up about 3 characters of space on our symbolic status menu and a simple click to open the menu will show the actual time remaining. I also agree with not showing either the time or percentage by default next to the main tray icon itself but it's a nice power user feature. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/811777 Title: "Show Percentage Remaining" is more useful than "Show Time Remaining" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/811777/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
