Bug 721646

Summary:	Plasma 5 PowerDevil does not show battery remaining time
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Armitage <lock.cda>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	UPSTREAM
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408279
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Armitage 2020-05-08 15:35:35 UTC

The powerdevil does not show the battery remaining time, only the percentage is shown.

Sometimes (don't know how to reproduce it) the remaining time is shown but not updated (is stays stuck with the same value).

The upower shows the battery remaining time and the value is correct and gets updated.

I'm running plasma 5.17.5-r1.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install plasma 5.
2. Disconnect the power cable.
Actual Results:  
The battery remaining time is not shown (sometimes is shown but it's not updated).

Expected Results:  
The battery remaining time should be shown and should be updated.

I edited .config/plasmawindowedrc in order to add showBatteryString=true and showRemainingTime=true but the result is the same.

The full file contents:

[Applets][3]
immutability=1
plugin=org.kde.plasma.battery

[Applets][3][Configuration]
PreloadWeight=42
geometry=0,29,288,270
showBatteryString=true
showRemainingTime=true

Comment 1 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev

2020-05-08 15:54:13 UTC

Please subscribe to the bug upstream, in case there is a fix you can inform us in order to decide if it is feasible to backport.