Re: bug#643: Battery update

[Yoni Rabkin]

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:

> 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?

I use Emacs fullscreen under the Ion2 Tiling Window Manager, and it
doesn't have any "bars" and "docks" which are so popular these days. I
also use Emacs without X11 often. For me, battery.el and wireless.el are
the primary sources for me to get that information.

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