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Subject: Re: bug#643: Battery update
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:54:14 +0100
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Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> Chong Yidong wrote:
>> Even though it's the feature freeze, I think it's necessary to ensure
>> that battery.el works at least at a basic level.
> 
> Just out of curiosity: Why is it necessary that battery.el works? Is not
> this information something that the OS normally gives the user without
> Emacs?
> 

not if you're running emacs fullscreen I guess, can't see a tray icon
then...