Short answer: our UI sucks bolas rojas.
Long answer: when the NT kernel informs the user-mode part of the system that the battery is no longer charging, the machine is directly powered up by the AC adapter.
This is understood by determining the presence of AC_LINE_ONLINE status bit in ACLineStatus member field, which is a Windows API construct.
In the NT world this is understood by checking the power state returned by the BATTERY_STATUS structure.
What's happening right now is that when the battery is fully charged, ROS UI simply displays "100% remaining" implying the battery is about to discharge, which is not the case.
This is extremely confusing to the user. AND WORST PART IS THAT IT'S XP/2003 DESIGN, AND I HATE IT UGGGHHH.
With this patch we're leaning towards Windows 10/11 way of informing the user the battery is fully charged. VIVA LA NT6!
CORE-18969
CORE-19452
- Use GetSystemPowerStatus() instead of querying each battery.
- Add an ugly AC power icon. Should be fixed or replaced.
- Display AC power, battery charging, battery depleting and error cases. The AC power case was missing.
- Update some strings because we are no longer using float for the charge percentage.
@Turkish translators: Please check and update the translation of IDS_PWR_CHARGING!
