When the battery is around 50% it looks like more than half empty. It's already red at 20%. You should be more optimistic :) Now a battery at 20% lasts more than 2 hours! More seriously, I think the icons should look a little more full. Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 95713 [details] Battery icon at 57% On the attachement you can see how it looks at 57%. It's more than half but it looks like I should run to plug the alimentation in.
Re-assigning to Breeze theme. I agree that the icon is difficult to see. The 22-22-Fill50 element used in your machine indeed looks more like 30%. Also, Fill30 is red already which means the battery icon turns red at 35% which easily translates to more than two hours of battery life on a modern laptop. The 22-22 and regular size graphics are also inconsistent in when their fill and when they will turn red.
Can we use the same coloring magic on the low-battery-state that we use in breeze-dark icons? Ie. take the normal black icons and color them white. Cause I have low battery set to 10% so ideally I'd like to see the battery red only when it gets below 10%.
so, 30% and 20% still black? (or white)
Git commit df88cef4a8ef5dd4ee7e7ea5a88406c36ec40753 by Marco Martin. Committed on 25/11/2015 at 11:49. Pushed by mart into branch 'master'. red at 10% Change-Id: I60696f81cbda85018a580fd5b077ff1c2bc90d6d M +- -- src/desktoptheme/breeze/icons/battery.svgz http://commits.kde.org/plasma-framework/df88cef4a8ef5dd4ee7e7ea5a88406c36ec40753
Well that's not exactly what I meant. I have powerdevil set to "low battery" at 5%, so being red at 20% makes no sense for me cause even at 10% I still have something about an hour of time left. So what I was proposing, rather, is following the powerdevil setting for "low battery" level for coloring the battery red. If that is possible.
*** Bug 356295 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
should work now. please check (https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=plasma-framework.git&a=commit&h=42952018ad26aa5b66cda74e7a2ea69a80187ffa) the battery stat is now easier to recognize and the icon is 2px larger that it fits better to the other vertical status bar icons.
*** Bug 356746 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Can be closed? I would say yes...
The icons were updated and the stylesheet stuff work. thanks for reporting the bug and help KDE/Plasma to make it even better Andreas Kainz