Re: [Usability] OT: Re: A battery applet...

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

David Christian Berg wrote:

> Hmm, I'm actually _hoping_ for a new artwork or being able to draw some
> pictures myself. I have a 1024*768 Screen and the battery picture is way
> to big for my panel. I'd like to see some windows like applet that goes
> down from top to bottom, with the difference that it should actually
> show the battery status and not only have like 3 states as in windows,
> where you can only guess where you are, since with 60% or something it
> still shows "full". I'd really love this to be themable! 
>  
I did a patch like this for Ubuntu, which can be found here:
   http://people.ubuntu.com/~jamesh/gnome-applets-battstat-status.patch

With the patch, you can turn off the large battery charge indicator, and 
still see how much charge you have from the small icon.  The downside is 
that the small icon doesn't give an indication of charge while on AC power.

I told Davyd about the patch, but he seemed to want to clean up the 
applet for 2.10, but if that isn't likely to happen it might be worth 
including the above patch.

James.