[Bug 82277] [Feisty] guidance-power-manager doesn't work for UPS on a desktop system

[GPLed]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: kde-guidance

I have a desktop with an APC UPS which HAL (and thus gnome-power-manager) supports. However guidance-power-manager displays this:
sunny at sunny-desktop:~$ guidance-power-manager
sunny at sunny-desktop:~$ No battery found.
This is not a laptop, quitting ...
power-manager: ERROR: Communication problem with power-manager, it probably crashed.

I looked into the code and I see there is a check whether the system is
a laptop or not. Please work around this so that desktop users with a
UPS can use guidance-power-manager.

** Affects: kde-guidance (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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[Feisty] guidance-power-manager doesn't work for UPS on a desktop system
https://launchpad.net/bugs/82277