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From: Roland Winkler <winkler@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] battery.el Retrieve more information from sysfs
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:30:19 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zkekkfn8.fsf@niu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87liq5rad1.fsf@kwarm.red-bean.com

On Wed, Dec 21 2011, Karl Fogel wrote:
> Most people see battery status in an icon on their GUI toolbar, I
> think.  Can you describe the use case(s) for battery.el?  Is it easier
> for the visually impaired, for example?  Maybe for people who are
> running their machine in text-console mode?
>
> When do you use it?

I am using battery.el all the time. Even though I have some icon for
this in the GUI toolbar, I would miss it too often. So the more
prominent display in the emacs mode line is the perfect place for me.

Roland




  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-22 11:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-18 18:53 [PATCH] battery.el Retrieve more information from sysfs Jérémy Compostella
2011-12-21 10:03 ` Jérémy Compostella
2011-12-21 19:30   ` Karl Fogel
2011-12-22  0:08     ` Kan-Ru Chen
2011-12-22 10:18       ` Jérémy Compostella
2011-12-22 11:30     ` Roland Winkler [this message]
2011-12-22 22:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-23  3:59   ` Richard Stallman
2011-12-23  4:38     ` Karl Fogel
2011-12-23  7:10       ` Bastien

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