| Summary: | Level of battery icon does not reflect actual state of a connected peripheral on a desktop computer with no built-in batteries | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | Lucia Mrenica <lucia.mrenica> |
| Component: | Power and Battery widget | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | minor | CC: | dglas2, kde, kde, kdedev, lucia.mrenica, natalie_clarius, nate |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | 6.4.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Arch Linux | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
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Expected icon on a desktop with the balanced power profile
Battery icon with Balanced power profile |
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Created attachment 183173 [details]
Battery icon with Balanced power profile
This is what the battery icon looks like with the Balanced power profile in use. It has the gauge icon overlaid on the battery. Will this work for you?
. (In reply to TraceyC from comment #1) > Created attachment 183173 [details] > Battery icon with Balanced power profile > > This is what the battery icon looks like with the Balanced power profile in > use. It has the gauge icon overlaid on the battery. Will this work for you? Are you asking me? In that case, the icon makes sense, but my question would be why are we showing the battery at all? Like on a laptop with a battery it makes sense to have a combined icon with both a battery and a power profile indicator. On a desktop without a battery less so. Like sure there could be batteries present like a headphone battery or mouse battery or whatever but those aren't relevant for power profiles. So like tl;dr: down show a battery icon on a desktop. (In reply to Lucia Mrenica from comment #3) > (In reply to TraceyC from comment #1) > > Created attachment 183173 [details] > > Battery icon with Balanced power profile > > > > This is what the battery icon looks like with the Balanced power profile in > > use. It has the gauge icon overlaid on the battery. Will this work for you? > > Are you asking me? In that case, the icon makes sense, but my question would > be why are we showing the battery at all? Like on a laptop with a battery it > makes sense to have a combined icon with both a battery and a power profile > indicator. On a desktop without a battery less so. Like sure there could be > batteries present like a headphone battery or mouse battery or whatever but > those aren't relevant for power profiles. > So like tl;dr: down show a battery icon on a desktop. *don't show Thanks, that makes sense. Does the level of the battery icon actually reflect the battery status of the connected device that has a battery? If so, I think this is intentional, and the idea is to let you easily monitor the battery of your connected device. *** Bug 508847 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #6) > Does the level of the battery icon actually reflect the battery status of > the connected device that has a battery? If so, I think this is intentional, > and the idea is to let you easily monitor the battery of your connected > device. No, it's always "full". |
Created attachment 183048 [details] Expected icon on a desktop with the balanced power profile If any device containing a battery is connected like mouse / headphones / whatever, this battery is treated like a laptop battery and then the battery icon is used for the balanced power profile like on a laptop. After disconnecting any device containing a battery icon goes back to the normal one.