Bug 506732 - Level of battery icon does not reflect actual state of a connected peripheral on a desktop computer with no built-in batteries
Summary: Level of battery icon does not reflect actual state of a connected peripheral...
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Power and Battery widget (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.4.2
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR minor
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Keywords:
: 508847 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2025-07-07 20:04 UTC by Lucia Mrenica
Modified: 2025-09-16 20:40 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Expected icon on a desktop with the balanced power profile (5.53 KB, image/png)
2025-07-07 20:04 UTC, Lucia Mrenica
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Battery icon with Balanced power profile (14.43 KB, image/png)
2025-07-11 20:44 UTC, TraceyC
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Description Lucia Mrenica 2025-07-07 20:04:04 UTC
Created attachment 183048 [details]
Expected icon on a desktop with the balanced power profile

If any device containing a battery is connected like mouse / headphones / whatever, this battery is treated like a laptop battery and then the battery icon is used for the balanced power profile like on a laptop.
After disconnecting any device containing a battery icon goes back to the normal one.
Comment 1 TraceyC 2025-07-11 20:44:06 UTC
Created attachment 183173 [details]
Battery icon with Balanced power profile

This is what the battery icon looks like with the Balanced power profile in use. It has the gauge icon overlaid on the battery. Will this work for you?
Comment 2 TraceyC 2025-07-11 20:44:35 UTC
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Comment 3 Lucia Mrenica 2025-07-12 12:28:37 UTC
(In reply to TraceyC from comment #1)
> Created attachment 183173 [details]
> Battery icon with Balanced power profile
> 
> This is what the battery icon looks like with the Balanced power profile in
> use. It has the gauge icon overlaid on the battery. Will this work for you?

Are you asking me? In that case, the icon makes sense, but my question would be why are we showing the battery at all? Like on a laptop with a battery it makes sense to have a combined icon with both a battery and a power profile indicator. On a desktop without a battery less so. Like sure there could be batteries present like a headphone battery or mouse battery or whatever but those aren't relevant for power profiles.
So like tl;dr: down show a battery icon on a desktop.
Comment 4 Lucia Mrenica 2025-07-12 17:52:13 UTC
(In reply to Lucia Mrenica from comment #3)
> (In reply to TraceyC from comment #1)
> > Created attachment 183173 [details]
> > Battery icon with Balanced power profile
> > 
> > This is what the battery icon looks like with the Balanced power profile in
> > use. It has the gauge icon overlaid on the battery. Will this work for you?
> 
> Are you asking me? In that case, the icon makes sense, but my question would
> be why are we showing the battery at all? Like on a laptop with a battery it
> makes sense to have a combined icon with both a battery and a power profile
> indicator. On a desktop without a battery less so. Like sure there could be
> batteries present like a headphone battery or mouse battery or whatever but
> those aren't relevant for power profiles.
> So like tl;dr: down show a battery icon on a desktop.

*don't show
Comment 5 TraceyC 2025-07-12 20:55:39 UTC
Thanks, that makes sense.
Comment 6 Nate Graham 2025-08-27 17:08:42 UTC
Does the level of the battery icon actually reflect the battery status of the connected device that has a battery? If so, I think this is intentional, and the idea is to let you easily monitor the battery of your connected device.
Comment 7 Nate Graham 2025-08-28 16:38:17 UTC
*** Bug 508847 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Lucia Mrenica 2025-09-07 10:46:38 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #6)
> Does the level of the battery icon actually reflect the battery status of
> the connected device that has a battery? If so, I think this is intentional,
> and the idea is to let you easily monitor the battery of your connected
> device.

No, it's always "full".