Insufficiencies in Karmic's battery behavior

[Dylan McCall]

> Karmic's adoption of DeviceKit-Power and the latest Gnome-Power-Manager has
> changed the way the GUI reports remaining battery time.

Possibly relevant to this discussion is a widely "me tooed' bug report
on the battery time estimate flat out not happening in Karmic:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/444881

To keep the thoughts flowing, I have a question: Is there a
performance / power efficiency gain from not querying the battery as
frequently as gnome-power-manager used to?


Thanks,

Dylan McCall