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[Matthew East]

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 12:39 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/5/9 Dylan McCall <dylanmccall at gmail.com>:
>
>> I remember discovering that when I was going through translations for some
>> reason. Pretty awesome :)
>
> So how's it work? What app is doing that and what's it using as a database?

gnome-power-manager does it, I believe. It's not a new feature.
Looking at the NEWS file, preliminary support for this was introduced
in version 2.17.2, released in October 2006.

I think it uses information provided by hal-info as its database:

/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-recall-battery-dell.fdi
/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-recall-battery-ibm.fdi
/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-recall-battery-fujitsu.fdi
/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-recall-battery-lenovo.fdi
/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-recall-battery-gateway.fdi
/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-recall-battery-toshiba.fdi

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