Feature requests for hal battery backend.

[Danny Kukawka]

On Monday 01 August 2005 22:58, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > I'm actually starting to wonder if this patch is appropriate at all.  It
> > would make it a lot easier for HAL clients to report accurate time
> > remaining information to the user, but it's not really a nice fit as
> > it's currently written (the hackish nature of my patch is a bit of an
> > indication of this).
>
> What about system.time_remaining on the Computer node?

better: system.battery.time_remaining

> > What might be nice is some overall "time remaining" property on the core
> > computer device or a virtual composite battery device for all primary
> > batteries in the entire system (this composite device could also report
> > overall percentage).
>
> Or this, David?
>
> > And the parent "Batteries" would contain sane composite information
> > about all "primary" battery devices (and be flagged as such).  The
> > correct place to put the combined time remaining information would then
> > be in this new virtual device.

Danny
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