RE: gnome-control-center power remaining confusion

[John Frankish <j-frankish slb com>]

> > > > On Thu, 2014-06-05 at 12:20 +0000, John Frankish wrote:
> > > > Using gnome-control-center-3.10.3, I get:
> > > >
> > > > Desktop top panel battery icon -> click -> time remaining 1:29 -
> > > > 50%
> > > >
> > > > Gnome-control-center -> power -> time remaining 1:29 - 79%
> > > >
> > > > Why 50% battery life remaining in one and 79% battery life
> > > > remaining in the
> > > other?
> > >
> > > Because the way that the time remaining is calculated is different
> > > in each of those applications. This is all fixed in GNOME 3.12 with UPower
> 0.99.x.
> > Thanks for the update - rather than recompiling a bunch of applications, is
> there patch to fix this for gnome-3.10.x?
>
> No. UPower does that now, and it requires a new UPower (obviously) and
> new gnome-control-center, gnome-shell and gnome-settings-daemon.
And gnome-session and gjs and mozjs and and and

..all to correct the remaining battery life display

I think I'll live with it - thanks :)