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Apropos Qubes and xfce, the award for the most useless battery indicator definitely goes to xfce. They still only have a tiny static tray icon with three or fou
by dom0 10y ago
Apropos Qubes and xfce, the award for the most useless battery indicator definitely goes to xfce. They still only have a tiny static tray icon with three or four different images; the battery looks "four fifths full" all the time. To actually know the battery state you have to hover the mouse over it for a couple seconds.
This makes me fairly certain that whoever did this never used it.
Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/HkmkKwk.png http://i.imgur.com/HkmkKwk.png
Note how:
- The battery is actually at 30 % in this shot (how'd you know?)
- The black box next to the battery is actually the netvm nm-applet (edit: actually it's the tray of the Qubes VM Manager; looks like nm-applet vanished - again)
- The drowned-in-white-box speaker symbol is the pulseaudio applet
- These are the "neatest" window decorations I could find
- stonogo 10y agoXfce and cinnamon are the only DEs that have reliably supported multiple batteries correctly. I agree the icon itself needs to be fixed, but having two or more batteries on gnome or kde results in a situation where it is literally impossible to figure out what is going on.
- dom0 10y agoI've never used KDE on a machine with multiple batteries, can't really comment on that. In fact I almost exclusively use i3 and i3pystatus, the latter has no problems with multiple batteries. Now while trying Qubes I have that twitching in my typing hand to just make i3 work better with QVM, because seriously - xfce is... not nice to use.