SUMMARY When running off a machine that is only powered by a plugged in power source (not a laptop or tablet) the Battery icon remains in the system tray as a redundant item in the tray by default. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Boot into Neon on a no-batteries machine 2. Check the System Tray OBSERVED RESULT There is a no batteries detected icon in there and its only use is toggling power management EXPECTED RESULT The icon would change to one of the following: - Brightness icon if brightness can be changed still (Cinnamon) - Power Symbol such as a lightning bolt if only toggling power management is available SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE neon (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.17.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.64.0 Qt Version: 5.13.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Having a no batteries icon on a computer that is only powered by a plug is pointless and just feels out of place.
Slight bonus suggestion: Add an option in the Battery Plasmoid's settings to not hide the Plasmoid in the tray overflow menu when the battery is fully charged.
See https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/1305
Git commit f9e39815dcf64c6b425737b51257b46cd400d5db by Nate Graham, on behalf of Aleix Pol Gonzalez. Committed on 04/01/2022 at 17:37. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. applets/batterymonitor: Improve for desktop systems As it was so far, it looked like the system was malfunctioning because we were showing a battery with a big fat red mark. If there's no battery we can show the default icon. As for the name, we only say "battery and brightness" when there's both of them. Otherwise we show either title. If neither batteries nor brightness are available, we mark the applet as passive so people can at least still access the power management blocking checkbox which lives here. FIXED-IN: 5.24 M +18 -5 applets/batterymonitor/package/contents/ui/main.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/commit/f9e39815dcf64c6b425737b51257b46cd400d5db
The icon is no longer monochrome on Plasma 5.24 beta, it's green instead. Is this intentional? I'm using a desktop computer.
Hmm, that should have been fixed by https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/471cc3745b3a51a8b427fc1b44a22de228cbd945 Either way can you open a new bug report for it?
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #5) > Hmm, that should have been fixed by > https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/ > 471cc3745b3a51a8b427fc1b44a22de228cbd945 > > Either way can you open a new bug report for it? Reported as bug 448520