Battery rate visualization improvement #507
Description
Has this issue been covered in the Wiki?
- I have read the Wiki and my issue is not covered.
Is there an existing issue reported already?
- I have searched the existing issues, it does not exist.
Describe the new feature you would like
The battery statistics currently have two items (among others)
- State (binary value: either discharging or charging)
- Rate (float value: watts flowing through)
When you have "Rate" shown in the toolbar, it is always a positive value, so the only way to know if the laptop is properly plugged in:
To know whether the laptop is charging you need to enable both rate and state to be shown, but that is not efficient use of space:
I would like to propose this feature:
Rate should be a positive value when charging, and negative when discharging. This way you do not need to enable state to be shown, you can tell if the laptop is plugged in just by looking at the value (positive means plugged in and charging).
Now, obviously Gnome has a battery icon that shows the charging state, but you have to look into two places to tell. I still think summarizing the two information in one float value using the sign for charging state is a nice improvement.
Hope this gets picked up.