Battery indicator does not display after turning off "show time in menu bar"

[nicekiwi]

Expected behaviour

When un-selecting "Show time in Menu Bar" the battery indicator should hide the time remaining but still show the battery icon.

Actual behaviour

When the "Show time in menu bar" option is un-selected the entire indicator is removed.

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

1. Run (or emulate) a laptop on battery.
2. Click the battery icon and select "Show time in menu bar".
3. Click the battery icon again and de-select "Show time in menu bar".

MATE general version

1.22.2

Package version

1.22.1-1ubuntu1

Linux Distribution

Ubuntu MATE 19.10

Link to downstream report of your Distribution

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate/+bug/1850006

[Potherca]

I also encountered this behavior today.

For future reference (or for other people who run into this), I managed to get the icon back with gsettings:

gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.power show-percentage true

[flexiondotorg]

The battery indicator is not part of this project. It is provided by https://github.com/AyatanaIndicators/ayatana-indicator-power