#44 closed enhancement (fixed)
Frame: Battery Charging icon looks like a 'missing battery'
| Reported by: | mungewell | Owned by: | garycmartin |
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| Priority: | Low | Milestone: | |
| Component: | design | Version: | 0.82.x |
| Severity: | Minor | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Eben, cms, HoboPrimate | Distribution/OS: | Unspecified |
| Bug Status: | New |
Description
The colour choice (white with progressive white fill) for the 'charging battery' looks like a missing battery.
This is especially noticable when compaired with the 'muted audio'
icon which is an empty white speaker.
A better choice might be to supperimpose a '+' (plus sign) over the coloured (user colours) battery icon when charging, and a '-' (minus sign) when discharging. When the battery is neither charging or discharging just the battery level icon would be shown.
A white battery icon could be used to represent a missing or faulty battery.
Change History (10)
comment:1 Changed 14 years ago by mungewell
comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by erikos
- Cc Eben added
I find it a bit strange as well. When the battery is charging it is white. And when we run on battery power it is the coloured one and does reflect the %.
Actually, when charging I would be interested in the percentage which I only get in the palette currently. Maybe the icon should be just different when we are charging? The gnome icon shows a battery and a plug on top of it.
Eben, can you please comment?
comment:3 Changed 14 years ago by marcopg
- Bug Status set to New
- Distribution/OS set to Unspecified
- Milestone set to 0.86
- Priority changed from major to Low
- Severity set to Minor
- Version set to 0.82.x
comment:4 Changed 14 years ago by garycmartin
- Cc cms added
- Component changed from sugar to design
- Owner changed from marcopg to garycmartin
- Status changed from new to assigned
Eben/Christian, any input on this design element?
comment:5 follow-up: ↓ 6 Changed 11 years ago by HoboPrimate
- Cc HoboPrimate added
Eben once told me that the idea was, when the battery is charging, it isn't being used by the user to power his laptop.
no battery = no icon
battery is charging = white icon
battery is powering laptop = color icon
A quick fix would be to add the charging badge to the battery when charging.
comment:6 in reply to: ↑ 5 Changed 11 years ago by garycmartin
Replying to HoboPrimate:
Eben once told me that the idea was, when the battery is charging, it isn't being used by the user to power his laptop.
A quick fix would be to add the charging badge to the battery when charging.
+1 the monochrome silhoutte on it's own is too ambiguious, a Z lightning bolt inside the silhoutte, or a badge would be good.
comment:8 Changed 9 years ago by RobertTheKing
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from assigned to closed
Fixes #44 . Adds charging icon to charging battery sign
Changeset: 347742031833944a7f6dd4cf318490d292545a59
comment:9 Changed 9 years ago by Manuel Quiñones
Fix fill of charging battery icon 100
Fixes #44. This is a small fix of the previous commit.
Changeset: 71e0d00a2ac360b26aec4b4c84487c5fddb9aa94
comment:10 Changed 9 years ago by Manuel Quiñones
Remove monochrome from battery icon while charging
Fixes #44 . This is part of the fix. Previously the charging state was
distinguished with the monochrome, but was too ambiguous. Now we added
a Z lightinng bolt inside the icon.
Changeset: e3fad1285c34f3c97058464f5e53cbf5d7efabc8
must have been a late night...
'missing' battery _IS_ shown as solid white, perhaps would be better as white outline or with dashed boarder for B/W displays.
comments about '+' and '-' still stand.