[Bug 287228] onMeeGo: while the device is plugedIn, the battery symbol vanishes, so that options like sleep cannot be activated

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287228





--- Comment #7 from Thomas Pfeiffer <colomar autistici org>  2011-11-22 11:29:00 ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> I am also of the oppinion that the battery icon should always be visible if
> there is a battery present. Usually when things disappear it means it has
> disappeared :-) The user may think there is problem in the battery icon or in
> the battery itself if the icon comes and goes. At least until he/she realises
> the icon disappears only when the battery is fully charged.

Hm... on the other hand, many icons only appear if something _happens_. So one
could say "The icon is displayed as long as the battery charges or dischagres",
which it does not do when it's full.
But you and Fania do have a point I guess, and most if not all OSes - desktop
an mobile - I know keep the icon displayed even when the battery is full.


> At least KDE users expect the Sleep and Hibernate options on the battery
> plasmoid, it has been there for years. Ok, newcomers do not know that.

They might expect it, but do they _look_ for it there? I for example have never
hibernated my laptop or put it so sleep from the battery icon, as I have a
dedicated button for that. So okay, long time KDE users will eventually
remember that possibility after unsuccessfully looking for a leave button, but
I don't think it's the first place even they will look for it.

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