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Sonny

Implementing battery charge limits in GNOME

By @jelly

vdwaa.nl/gnome-upower-charge-t

It will mitigate battery loosing capacity over time.

@sonny Thanks so much for implementing this, @jelly! It will save a lot of batteries (and laptops) from an premature death.

Is it possible to expose the stop and start range to customization? Also, it would be really nice to have a 'pill' button to quickly toggle the battery saver on and off from the top menu 😌

@sonny @jelly neat, this is something I’ve been spending a bunch of time thinking about, and I wonder if we can improve the experience here even more:

New hardware (like ARM MacBooks) also allow to inhibit charging at any point via sysfs, so we could do smth like stop charge at 80% but provide a button (maybe quicksetting) to continue up to 100% once.

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@jelly

I'm using extensions.gnome.org/extension for some time now and am quite happy with it. That seems to have some more options, e.g. changing the charge limit ad-hoc or enable force-discharge.

extensions.gnome.orgBattery Health Charging - GNOME Shell Extensions

@sonny @jelly Is this a backend kind of thing that might show up in MATE? (The old good gnome interface.) Or is it only in the smartphone-envy version that outlaws scrollbars and menus but likes buttons?