Add option to show discharge rate in taskbar.
I'd like this option because I like being able to see how much power I'm actually using and adjust brightness/what's on and enabled/etc. as I use the laptop. It's be easier to just have it scroll down on the taskbar. Thanks!
anonymous
shared this idea
There isn’t enough room to show the discharge rate in mW, but it might be possible to show W (e.g., -14 W rather than -14,214 mW).
7 comments
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Christoph Rackwitz
commented
the newest update includes this feature. looks perfect.
now it just resets my choice of display (time remaining, percentage, wattage) sometimes... but i think that has always been the case.
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DAVe3283
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Just showing "-14 W" would be just fine. This would be a very useful feature, as this is the information I want to see most.
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Danny
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how about a little line or red or something that travels between 100% (max recorded consumption) and 0%(no consumption) that is on the top of the battery. just so its a visual representation of consumption instead of a number.
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osirisis
commented
How about this feature? I waiting only for it before pay for Pro version :)
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Mark Rejhon commented
This would be extremely useful. Especially if it can also come with a color-coding. Add colorcoded battery-consumption rates with adjustable levels, such as green for 5 watt, yellow for 8 watts, orange for 12 watts, red for 15 watts. These levels could be configurable or automatically calibrated by the software ("[x] automatically calibrate these values" in the options) This will allow users to prolong their battery life. If you're reading a static webpage while the battery bar is on orange, you can easily suspect you've accidentally left a webpage window running Flash in the background (and get into a good habit to close that window more quickly). Or if the current webpage has a Flash animation you can turn off. Or if you're fidgeting with the mouse cursor or scrollbar by accident (wasting almost double battery power sometimes!) then BatteryPro will turn yellow or orange, and will help 'cure' your behaviour of things that will cause the laptop to die before the coffee shop closes or your airplane flight ends. This battery "MPG" style feature would benefit other laptop users to realize what activities are causing short battery lives, and to determine which brand of video player will complete playing that 3-hour disc better than others... It may not be that important to many people, but it would sound like an excellent feature for people who want to easily figure out how to add an extra hour or two of battery life without needing to do trial and error.
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tomaskafka
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I think that better solution would be to have a sectrion in settings with checkboxes for every piece of info that BatteryBar knows, and those checked would then be cycled by clicking the battery bar. Simply put, like now BB toggles between minutes and percent, it would cycle between those values that users checked.
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Raphael
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14,2W is a good compromise
