Bug 415692 - charging/discharging status is not obvious from icon
Summary: charging/discharging status is not obvious from icon
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Power and Battery widget (show other bugs)
Version: 5.15.5
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Kai Uwe Broulik
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Reported: 2019-12-29 22:05 UTC by Diggory Hardy
Modified: 2020-02-01 04:33 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Diggory Hardy 2019-12-29 22:05:21 UTC
SUMMARY: not obvious whether battery is charging / discharging from icon

SOLUTION: use significantly different icons for charging and discharging states

Using Plasma with the Breeze theme, the system tray has a small, mostly black, battery icon. When charging, there is a lightning-bolt symbol on the battery. The problem is that the lightning-bolt symbol is very hard to see on a retina-level screen (~270 DPI), thus it is not obvious whether the charger is connected or not.

(Yes, one can probably make all icons larger. I don't want that: part of the point of a high-resolution laptop screen is to get lots of content on the screen. Other than this little detail, icons are clear enough at ~20 pixels across.)
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2020-01-02 16:51:09 UTC
> the lightning-bolt symbol is very hard to see on a retina-level screen (~270 DPI
Are you scaling the display at all? At 270 DPI, you would need to be using a 2-8 to 3.0x scale factor to make everything show up at the intended size.

If not, I would expect *everything* to be difficult to distinguish at effectively one third of the intended size.
Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2020-01-17 04:33:13 UTC
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Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2020-02-01 04:33:17 UTC
This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
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