Battery plasmoid auto hide

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday, July 27, 2011 21:02:19 Sven Burmeister wrote:
> So if one follows your argument that it should only hide if it has 
usefulinformation the only state it should hide would be fully charged and on
> power.

which is what it does. 

> How do other OSs handle this? Does Apple hide it?

no, because Apple has an utterly different strategy for their status icons. if 
we did something similarly utterly different with our panel as well as the 
system tray we could decide to also always show it ... but then ...

people complain about not being able to hide it on macs (just do a google 
search for "macos battery icon hide") .. and:

"apple does it" is not a synonym for "great". if you think otherwise, i'm 
happy to share my dozen or three stories of "stupid shit macs do on a regular 
basis" that i've collected in the last 4 months of living in switzerland with 
someone who has to use one for work every day.

> Is it hidden on
> smartphones where the space for a "systray" is certainly most limited
> compared to other devices?

because phones, which are not laptops/desktops (to state the obvious) are 
rarely plugged in (relative to their running time), usually unplugged either 
before being fully charged or shortly thereafter and rarely watched in a 
meaningful way when being charged.

because phones, which are designed by people largely stuck in the last century 
except where they have been pulled by their nosehairs closer to 2011 by 
competition and necessity, have highly uninteresting and inflexible primary 
UIs.

in this case, the comparison of a decision driven by non-phones with phones 
doesn't seem highly relevant.

> If not – there might be a reason.

indeed. can you share the specifics of what you think the reasons are and how 
that relates to our decision to show it only when it has something useful to 
say?

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