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mhaeuser / Battery-Toolkit

Control the platform power state of your Apple Silicon Mac.
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Battery Status #10

Open laltm opened 8 months ago

laltm commented 8 months ago

It would be nice to implement the battery charge percentage into the status bar icon.

Maybe like Apple did it on iOS. That way, you could throw out the default icon and save some space in the status bar. I have no Idea how to do this but I think it would be super neat :)

mhaeuser commented 6 months ago

I will not get to this any time soon, but I agree that would be a nice detail. If someone wants to PR this, please make sure to use the event system rather than polling (as done by the daemon) and to not register any events when this feature is currently turned off.

realrogue commented 4 months ago

@laltm I use Bartender to hide the Battery Toolkit icon as once i have it setup it runs really well in the background, then use iStat to display a more useful battery icon. iStat has been involved in some controversy lately, so you may want to use one of the alternatives.

mhaeuser commented 4 months ago

@rogueda You don’t need to use Bartender, you can simply quit the GUI. All actual logic is in the background daemon.

laltm commented 4 months ago

some controversy lately @rogueda Hi, thanks for the suggestions! I actually have iStat, but didn't like the way their icon looks. Can you tell me what the controversy was about?

trevyn commented 2 months ago

I think Bartender was the one with the controversy.

franzf commented 1 month ago

@rogueda You don’t need to use Bartender, you can simply quit the GUI. All actual logic is in the background daemon.

Would you be able to add explanation to the GUI somewhere? I was going to leave this running on the menu bar at all times before checking this issue.

mhaeuser commented 1 month ago

@franzf This also implies the opposite issue, where people quit the GUI expecting the background process to quit as well. Would a prompt with an explanation that the background activity remains active when quitting resolve your suggestion? You have to try quitting to see it, so it's not perfect.