Cinnamon 2.8 to Add Battery Vendor and Model Information, Better Box Pointers

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Marius Nestor
Aug 23, 2015

While working on improving power management for the Cinnamon desktop environment, Clement Lefebvre noticed that there’s was no information about manufacturer’s data in the Power applet and settings section of the Control Panel, something that apparently was present in the Xfce 4.12 desktop environment. Therefore this information will now be present in Cinnamon 2.8.

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Marius Nestor

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