Bug 345231

Summary:	Add overlay to tray icon when power management is inhibited
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Gregor Mi <codestruct>
Component:	Power and Battery widget	Assignee:	Kai Uwe Broulik <kde>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bugseforuns, dave, keigh.rim, murat.cileli, natalie_clarius, nate, notuxius, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Gregor Mi 2015-03-16 19:35:21 UTC

To see at one glance if "Enable Power Mangement" option is disabled (e.g. while watching a video) and not to forget to reenable it, add some kind of (maybe reddish) overlay icon to the battery widget's icon.

Comment 1 Alexander Mentyu 2017-08-29 05:56:29 UTC

There may be a pause icon - https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=pause%20icon - or some sort of presentation icon - https://thenounproject.com/term/presentation/229135/ in the bottom right corner of battery icon if Power Management is disabled.

Comment 2 Kai Uwe Broulik 2018-09-04 10:46:01 UTC

*** Bug 398230 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2021-04-23 18:46:19 UTC

Hmm, I looked into this but couldn't really find anything that looked good and communicated the information.

Comment 4 Dave Vasilevsky 2024-11-24 23:02:15 UTC

I agree this is a problem. It's kinda ironic the suspend-inhibited icon only shows when I'm plugged in and not at risk of fully discharging.

Nowadays we have badges for power profiles: https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/breeze-icons/-/merge_requests/376 . Maybe we could add a badge for inhibition status too?