Bug 438316

Summary: Battery percentage overlaps the battery icon preventing the visibility of charging status
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Apoorv Potnis <apoorvpotnis>
Component: Battery MonitorAssignee: Kai Uwe Broulik <kde>
Status: ASSIGNED ---    
Severity: minor CC: nate, niels1995, nortexoid, o.rootedavid.o, plasma-bugs, teohhanhui, typingcat
Priority: NOR Keywords: usability
Version: 5.21.5   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Manjaro   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451794
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Attachments: battery icon in panel

Description Apoorv Potnis 2021-06-09 11:34:53 UTC
Created attachment 139131 [details]
battery icon in panel

SUMMARY

The battery charging percentage box overlaps the battery icon. This prevents seeing the charging status of the battery. The issue is independent of panel size. The same behaviour is observed at 46 as well as 70. Icon theme: Breeze as well as Breath2

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Right-click the battery icon in the panel. Click on "Configure Battery and Battery Settings", enable the "Show percentage" box in the "General" tab and apply settings.

EXPECTED RESULT

Battery charge percentage, as well as the charging status, should be visible at the same time.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

OS: Manjaro 21.0.6 Ornara (KDE)
Kernel: 5.12.8-1-MANJARO
KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.82.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Resolution: 1920x1080
WM Theme: Breeze
Theme: Breeze Light [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3]
Icons: breeze [Plasma], breeze [GTK2/3]
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-06-09 23:08:25 UTC
Yes, this is why the percentage display is not on by default. There's very little space here to display both a number and an icon. I've worked on a new style in the past, but it wasn't sufficiently better than the status quo so it didn't get merged.
Comment 2 Michael D 2021-10-08 18:28:56 UTC
I think something has to be done because it's impossible to tell at a glance whether your device is charging. Could the color of the icon change, e.g. to green, or something?
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2021-10-08 19:33:21 UTC
FWIW this is one of the reasons I have my tray icon size scale with the panel. :) With the current visualization, the problem only appears at the small default icon size.
Comment 4 Michael D 2021-10-08 19:38:33 UTC
It looks terrible though and deviates from any OS I know that has anything system tray-like. I think I'd rather add the widget to the panel (outside of the tray), but would still prefer it in the tray.
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2023-12-08 20:57:29 UTC
*** Bug 451794 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Nate Graham 2024-04-09 20:21:09 UTC
*** Bug 485292 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Nate Graham 2024-04-09 20:22:13 UTC
*** Bug 485018 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Bug Janitor Service 2024-04-22 07:22:44 UTC
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/4249