As the label is set to automatically hide when the battery if fully charged, a checkbox entry to have it always show would be useful. When this plugin is active on a desktop which doesnt have a battery, it would be good to have a drop down menu for this plugin to hide when 1. no laptop battery is found 2. no device with a battery is found
Another addition to the dialog would be setting the maximum icon size (bug 16485)
If no battery is found a fallback icon should be shown - if that's not the case for you, please report a bug and be sure to include the output of "upower -d". Why else would this label be useful? If the battery is fully charged it would say "100%" or "0:00" (I would consider the latter quite confusing tbh).
(In reply to Simon Steinbeiss from comment #2) > If no battery is found a fallback icon should be shown - if that's not the > case for you, please report a bug and be sure to include the output of > "upower -d". Yes the fallback icon appears, but its not useful to appear on a desktop, which is why i'm suggesting a setting value that the fallback icon not appear. > Why else would this label be useful? If the battery is fully charged it > would say "100%" or "0:00" (I would consider the latter quite confusing tbh). I've seen "0:00" presently, which was confusing, but the idea here is always show a label and not have it appear sometimes and disappear when its 100%.
I think it is useful to have the plugin on a desktop, because even on a desktop you may want to use certain features of the power manager and the plugin itself. 1) enable presentation mode (inhibit screensaver) 2) see apps which currently inhibit the screensaver 3) see the battery status of connected devices (e.g. bluetooth mice)