...Do you, though? If it's charging, what's the difference between "charging but at 25%" and "charging but at 90%"? is there anything actionable you the user can do with this information?

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> ...Do you, though? If it's charging, what's the difference between "charging
> but at 25%" and "charging but at 90%"? is there anything actionable you the
> user can do with this information?

Charging at 25% means I still need the charge cable or cannot leave my current location. Charging at 90% means I can give the charge cable to someone else or leave.

Sensible enough, but for that use case, if you want to check if you can unplug your cable now the applet is still just one click away. Imo visible system tray icons should be for things that require the user's immediate or permanent attention (such as monitoring when the battery will run out) or provide constant actionability (such as middle clicking the volume applet to mute). And if you want to always see your charge status, you can still set the applet to always shown. Setting the status to active when it's either unplugged or plugged but not too highly charged seems to corner-casey and fuzzy to me to make it the default.

I tend to agree with Natalie here. For specific use cases like that, accessing the information is pretty easy, and we don't need at-a-glance access to it all the time Un-actionable icons in the tray make it harder to find anything and reduce space for things that are actionable. And if you do consider this information always actionable (or at least useful) you can make the applet always appear visible in the tray.

*** Bug 479079 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Starting to get duplicate reports. We can re-evaluate if no one is satisfied here.

We could also consider making this optional. We already have a configuration for showing the charge percentage, so the infrastructure is there anyway and this seems like even more of an issue to have different opinions about.