Truncated remaining battery indication

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A flat theme with transparent elements

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Truncated remaining battery indication #43

Open e7d opened 6 years ago

e7d commented 6 years ago

Details

Distribution: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel 4.13.0-25-generic
Desktop environment: Wayland 2:1.19.5-0ubuntu2
Arc version/commit: master@f6284cc0caaa5859659baf5db38f56d60cabca28
GTK+ 3 version: 3.22.25-0ubuntu0.1
- Murrine engine version: 0.98.2-0ubuntu5
- gnome-themes-standard version: 3.22.3-1ubuntu1
Installation method: source

Description

Using a fresh installation of Ubuntu, roughly 1 week, I'm getting an issue with the "system menu" (don't know the official name) that you get when clicking the top right icons. As you can see the battery remaining time indication is truncated, making it impossible to know the remaining percentage of the battery : Truncated remaining battery indication

Just in case, here are my settings regarding appearance, as seen on Tweaks app : Tweaks appearance settings

Feel free to ask me for any additional information or tell me if I'm missing anything obvious.

fossfreedom commented 6 years ago

that looks like an ellipsis - usually that happens when the field is a fixed size and the font size causes the additional characters that normally would expand in that field instead be displayed as an ellipsis.

To test the theory make the font sizes slightly smaller

e7d commented 6 years ago

Agree about the ellipsis, especially since GTX themes looks like built around HTML-CSS based code.

As suggested, I tried to size down all the font sizes from 11-11-11-13 to 6-6-6-8, but with no success, be it after a Gnome Shell restart with "killall -HUP gnome-shell" or a full reboot : small-fonts

I'm looking after another solution though, which would be better I guess. The current display seems to follow this format: H:mm Remaining (XX%). It would be great if it could be changed to: XX% (H:mm left)

In my opinion, it would be more effective as both critical information, percentage and time left, would be positioned earlier in the chain, so they would always be visible, be it truncated by an ellipsis or not. It could look like this: battery-left-preview

NicoHood commented 6 years ago

Does the issue still exist? Here on ArchLinux with gnome 3.28 (Xorg) I have enough space in the menu. I cannot do a screenshot as its blocked when opening this menu.

e7d commented 6 years ago

Yes it is. You can find below a screenshot I did with my current desktop configuration, after having updated the different dependencies as long as your theme.

I'm using a Dell XPS 15 with 4K screen, but currently configured as 1080p because of scaling issues when I use my external monitor (but that's another story):

Let me know if I can be of any more use. I'll be glad to help.

NicoHood commented 6 years ago

Do other themes also have this bug?