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
next prev 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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