Jochen, thanks for the patch. But from your description, it seems like
it wouldn't fix the problem, and it would need to be removed when the
problem was fixed.
The problem isn't that we're treating laptop batteries the wrong way,
it's that we're treating the mouse the wrong way. Specifically, we're
treating a device that is discharging over weeks or months as more
important than *anything* that's charging, whether it's a laptop battery
or not.
With your patch, the mouse would still take precedence over anything
charging quickly that wasn't a laptop battery, which would be
inappropriate. And the laptop battery would take precedence over the
mouse even when the mouse had only five minutes charge left, which would
also be inappropriate.
So we need some other criteria for deprioritizing things that are
discharging very slowly. I don't think whether something is rechargeable
is relevant: if my mouse battery is going to die in 20 minutes, I want
to know that regardless of whether the solution is docking it or buying
new batteries.
** Changed in: indicator-power (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
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Mouse with no time remaining estimate showing in preference to battery
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