Battery plasmoid auto hide

[Sven Burmeister]

On Wednesday 27 July 2011 12:45:42 Marco Martin wrote:
> the concept is to show the plasmoid only when useful, i.e when is on
> battery, in which case has useful information.

The current charging status (%) is useful information, either because one 
wants to un-plug the cable at 100% or because one wants to know whether one 
can get going without running out of battery in the middle of the journey. 
Both of these things would require multiple clicks if the battery was hidden.

So if one follows your argument that it should only hide if it has useful 
information the only state it should hide would be fully charged and on power. 

How do other OSs handle this? Does Apple hide it? Is it hidden on smartphones 
where the space for a "systray" is certainly most limited compared to other 
devices? If not – there might be a reason.

Sven