Feature request: Battery percentage

Just add the percentage next to the battery icon in the status bar.

changed title from Battery percentage to Feature request: Battery percentage

not in the status bar but iw will be in quick settings (!425 (closed))

I guess that will do too

Fixed on master with 6e79653b

closed

thank you

added verified-amber-phone-staging label

@guido.gunther Is there a reason why we can't have it in/with the indicator itself?

AFAIK, in GNOME desktop this is possible with GNOME Tweaks.

The current battery indicator only knows a handful of visualizations which makes it hard to know if we have 10% or 30% battery left. Instead you have to unlock the phone, open quick settings and lock the phone again.

+1, but the top bar is quite crowded already, so a percentage number might not be sth that everyone would want. But, e.g. on the lock screen, I would like to have that info, for instance :)

I have seen some visualizations in the past where the battery value was inside the battery icon. This way you don't lose any space.

For those who don't want it, it can also be optional like on GNOME desktop.

from the technical side it could use similar logic than the wwan widget (which also has the access-tec as 'secondary widget' just that this would be based on the gsetting), basically a design issue so /cc @tobias.bernard

Yes! That would definitely solve this!

I have seen some visualizations in the past where the battery value was inside the battery icon. This way you don't lose any space.

is there a reference ? (as a side note: having this in a closed bug will likely just make it forgotten even if we come to a conclusion with the design team).

I cannot open this issue, I don't have the necessary permissions to do that.

GNOME Tweaks: (Alpine Linux GNOME vanilla)

Top bar: (I couldn't find a vanilla GNOME example for this, but vanilla GNOME has the same)

NOME Tweaks: (Alpine Linux GNOME vanilla)

ah..i meant in the phone/phosh mockups by @tobias.bernard . but thanks for collecting those.

I cannot open this issue, I don't have the necessary permissions to do that.

reopened and 'needs-design' added.

@tobias.bernard should we follow what gnome-shell does and allow to toggle battery percentage in the status bar?

reopened

added needsdesign label

removed verified-amber-phone-staging label

Perhaps a nice compromise between space requirement and detail-richness would be to only start showing the percentage when it goes below a certain threshold, like 30% or so? But I'll defer to the designers. And as I said, on the lock screen, we might always want to show the percentage, right now I have to unlock to dertermine how urgent I need to find my charger :)

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mentioned in merge request !822 (merged)

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closed with merge request !822 (merged)

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