GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 545886
Hard-to-distinguish charge levels for charging icons
Last modified: 2009-02-06 10:36:02 UTC
The 22x22 and 24x24 icons for gpm-primary-000-charging and gpm-primary-020-charging for gnome-power-manager show blue battery fluid rather than red and orange fluid respectively. In addition to being inconsistent, this also makes it difficult to distinguish the charge level from glancing at the gnome-power-manager icon. Their 16x16 and scalable counterparts use the correct colors. Other information:
This is by design -- the logic being that we should not show the red and orange couloration as these indicate something important. If you are charging at 10% then there is no problem, and so I think blue is the correct colour. Red and orange grab your attention more than blue. I think th real bug is that the 16x16 and scalable icons are red and orange! Maybe we can get some human interaction people to comment on this bug?
I see where you're coming from, but if the designers intended to have that effect, the UPS charging icons (gpm-ups-000-charging, gpm-ups-020-charging) shouldn't be displaying red and orange respectively. The thing is, all the charging icons, except for those which I've brought to your attention, leave the fluid at their warning and caution colors.
FWIW, as one of those "human interaction people" I'd be inclined to agree with Richard here... I don't really see any need to use red or orange in any of the 'charging' icons.
I think we made the charging ones red and orange when we changed the perspective of the smaller sizes a couple of days ago. Didn't really think about the color usage in that case, but yeah, no reason showing warning colors in those icons. Will fix.
Thanks dude.
Created attachment 128026 [details] Gnome power manager status icons Here's the icons with (the missing) 32x32 size added and with charging icons w/o red and orange bars.
2009-02-06 Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com> * configure.ac: * data/icons/Makefile.am: * data/icons/render-bitmaps.rb: * data/icons/scalable/gpm-batteries.svg: Add 32x32 icons, and make sure all charging icons are blue, not warning colours. Fixes #545886. Thanks to Lapo Calamandrei.