Bug 302646

Summary:	battery indicator: make old icon back
Product:	[Plasma] plasma4	Reporter:	Nick Shaforostoff <shafff>
Component:	widget-battery	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	cfeck, de.meyer.maarten, julia.mailings, kamikazow, notmart
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.8.80 (beta1)
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	lost sharpness illustration

Description Nick Shaforostoff 2012-06-27 15:41:24 UTC

... or rewrite the new icon to be like the old one.

with new icon it is now hard to understand what the level of the battery charge. it is the case when gradients make it worse. in result battery icon is not useful anymore

the old icon (from KDE 4.8) was consistent with kmix and networkmanager, not it creates a mess.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Nick Shaforostoff 2012-06-27 15:53:12 UTC

Created attachment 72171 [details]
lost sharpness illustration

i attach a screenshot which illustrates usability regression.

Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2012-06-27 18:28:12 UTC

Odd, because I still have the monochrome icon (4.9 rc1)

Comment 3 Maarten De Meyer 2012-06-27 22:36:26 UTC

I also have the monochrome icon, how does it look when you add a new battery indicator to a panel? (note panel, not systray)

Comment 4 Nick Shaforostoff 2012-06-28 04:27:55 UTC

maybe this installation problem?

i cannot add widgets: http://videoteka.kiev.ua/widget-add-fail.png

Comment 5 Marco Martin 2012-06-28 08:34:41 UTC

yes, definitely looks like a local, or maybe packaging problem. the battery icon is supposed to be still the old one.

does somebody with the same ubuntu packages encounter the same problem?

Comment 6 Julia 2012-07-06 00:35:40 UTC

I'm usuing Kubuntu with KDE v. 4.8.90 (note: not 4.8.80), packages retrieved from the kubuntu beta backports ppa.  I do not share this problem in the system tray.  However, when the battery monitor widget is launched, the battery level indicator in the widget matches that of the system tray, rather than the old widget which was significantly different; is this intentional, or should I file a new bug?

Comment 7 markuss 2012-07-30 23:20:20 UTC

Checking with RC2: Works here. It either was a Plasma issue and it's now fixed or (more likely) it was a packaging problem. Closing it.