Created attachment 177476 [details] Power and Battery widget showing undismissable warning message SUMMARY Cannot get rid of annoying battery warning STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Boot KDE Neon or your Linux distro with Plasma on a laptop that has an obsolete | old | faulty battery 2. Open the Power and Battery widget OBSERVED RESULT Below the problematic battery's percentage bar there's a message like: "This battery's health is at only x% and it should be replaced. Contact the manufacturer" Without any way to turn that message off or hide it at least. It's color it's also yellow | orange | reddish so it looks like a warning and gets the attention, which starts to get annoying after reading it already 1-3 times at least. The more I have to read it (which is >100 now), the more annoying it gets. EXPECTED RESULT Have a way to turn that message off. I already know about the battery's problem for years, but I don't have the money or the time and I also don't want to invest anything else in this laptop which I use 100% on AC power. This message is nothing but annoying to me and I don't want to see it anymore. I understand that Plasma wants to warn me about any problem with any part of my computer, which is really nice, but in this case I need a way to turn that off as I don't want to see it every time I want to change the power profile or look at the battery level of my mouse or other devices that reports its battery level. IIRC, Windows 7 had a checkbox to be able to stop such messages. I'm not sure if that is the best way, but a button or some option somewhere would be a great to have. Or who knows show a hint on hover that clicking on it will means that it was acknowledged and will not be displayed again. Or just display a confirmation pop-up window after the message is clicked. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.90 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.11.0 Qt Version: 6.8.1 Kernel Version: 6.8.0-51-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Hardware: Dell Inspiron 5770 Graphics Processor 1: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620 Graphics Processor 2: AMD Radeon R5 M465 Series
Agreed that there could be a method of acknowledging the warning that would make it appear lessened in importance and reduce attention grabbing going forward
This is actually intentional: it's supposed to get your attention to jar you into action. If you could dismiss it like you're asking, then you would do so, forget that your battery is boned, and then file a new bug report in 6 months about poor battery life. :) So go replace your battery! :D
I disagree since there's also the battery health thing not showing 100% anymore and in my case I know for years that the battery is not good anymore, but I'll let it slide. :-) Even though, I can forget that I already wrote a bug report about this annoying message and make another one in the future. Sorry if that happens! BTW, some of the updates that came to Debian 13 ('testing' repository) changed something that my battery health now show 100% instead of 8% how it was before and I bet it was pretty accurate. Strangely, KDE Neon testing show 100% too, so it might be something in Qt or Plasma updates.
(In reply to John from comment #3) > BTW, some of the updates that came to Debian 13 ('testing' repository) > changed something that my battery health now show 100% instead of 8% how it > was before and I bet it was pretty accurate. > Strangely, KDE Neon testing show 100% too, so it might be something in Qt or > Plasma updates. This is separate from the widget feature request. Please open a new bug report for this.
(In reply to TraceyC from comment #4) > (In reply to John from comment #3) > This is separate from the widget feature request. Please open a new bug > report for this. I think somebody already noticed the problem and fixed it. A few hours ago I installed the updates that came in Debian testing and now the Battery health: 100% has been replaced by that orange warning message with the correct health percentage in it. So at the moment there's no need to create a new bug anymore. And I guess the same updates will come to KDE Neon too, if not I will open a new bug then.