GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 633991
-charging battery icons should be centered, like the non-charging ones
Last modified: 2014-09-02 14:50:32 UTC
At 16px size, the non-charging battery icons all have 2 pixels of padding on the left and 3 on the right, making them more-or-less centered. But the -charging icons are left-justified. This is very noticeable when you click on the battery status icon in gnome-shell, since the highlighted area around the icon is obviously lopsized. Each of the -charging icons should be moved over 2 pixels so that they have the same alignment as the non-charging ones. (Actually it looks like the non-symbolic icons might have the same issue, but it's less noticeable there since the 2.0 panel doesn't give any explicit indication of the bounding box around them.)
The reason for off-center shift is to make room for the charging bolt emblem. Personally I don't consider this to be a major issue. We do not toggle the state so it would "jump around" nor is it an issue for the system status part of the top bar -- the emblem balances out the vertical position even if the battery itself is not centered. That said, it does feel to be a pixel too much on the left, will address.
I noticed this the other day. The panel icon moves to the left when I plug in my laptop. Looking at the icons, I think the bolt emblem could be accommodate without having to move the battery part. I'd be willing to have a go at fixing this; I'm just not sure what the work flow is.
This seems to have been fixed in the meantime. *-charging status icons are now aligned the same way as non charging.