"%s waiting to discharge"

mycae said 11 hours ago:

OK, i did a bit of digging and found this in one of the debian patches -- they don't like it either.

My original guess looks to be on the right track. You can probably change it to what you want. The comment to translators (such as yourself :) ) is:

TRANSLATORS: the device is discharging and we don't have a time remaining yet

So debian (and thus ubuntu) report:
%s (estimating...)

You should probably raise this as a bug with the gnome-power-manager people, and tell them to clarify that message.

---------------------- excerpt of debian patch below -----------

+diff -uNr -x .pc gnome-power-manager-2.31.90.orig/src/gpm-upower.c gnome-power-manager-2.31.90/src/gpm-upower.c
+--- gnome-power-manager-2.31.90.orig/src/gpm-upower.c 2010-08-17 15:30:31.000000000 +0100
++++ gnome-power-manager-2.31.90/src/gpm-upower.c 2010-08-25 14:54:19.291183081 +0100
+@@ -229,7 +229,10 @@
+
+ /* we always display "Laptop battery 16 minutes remaining" as we need to clarify what device we are refering to */
+ if (state == UP_DEVICE_STATE_FULLY_CHARGED) {
+-
++#ifdef HAVE_APP_INDICATOR
++ /* TRANSLATORS: the device is fully charged */
++ description = g_strdup_printf (_("%s is charged"), kind_desc);
++#else
+ if (kind == UP_DEVICE_KIND_BATTERY && time_to_empty_round > GPM_UP_TEXT_MIN_TIME) {
+ time_to_empty_str = gpm_get_timestring (time_to_empty_round);
+ /* TRANSLATORS: The laptop battery is fully charged, and we know a time */
+@@ -240,9 +243,22 @@
+ /* TRANSLATORS: the device is fully charged */
+ description = g_strdup_printf (_("%s is fully charged"), kind_desc);
+ }
+-
++#endif
+ } else if (state == UP_DEVICE_STATE_DISCHARGING) {
+-
++#ifdef HAVE_APP_INDICATOR
++ if (time_to_empty_round <= GPM_UP_TEXT_MIN_TIME) {
++ /* TRANSLATORS: the device is discharging and we don't have a time remaining yet */
++ description = g_strdup_printf (_("%s (estimating...)"), kind_desc);
++ } else if (time_to_empty_round <= 12*60*60) {
++ time_to_empty_str = gpm_get_timestring (time_to_empty_round);
++ /* TRANSLATORS: the device is discharging, and we have a time remaining */
++ description = g_strdup_printf (_("%s %s left"), kind_desc, time_to_empty_str);
++ g_free (time_to_empty_str);
++ } else { /* larger than 12 hours remaining */
++ /* TRANSLATORS: the device is discharging */
++ description = g_strdup_printf (_("%s"), kind_desc);
++ }

Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May you please test with that version and comment back if you're still having or not the issue? Please have a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that version.Thanks in advance and sorry for the late response.

I made a Polish translation my own way that makes sense. I do not use an English language version so and the bug is rather about an English language. If You see no more problems You can simply close the bug. For me from a Polish point of view this bug doesn't exist.

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