https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477769
--- Comment #4 from guimarcalsi...@gmail.com --- (In reply to Natalie Clarius from comment #2) > This was intentional so that when there are no batteries either the applet > wouldn't be completely empty and broken looking. But I'm open to removing it > if people find it just adds unnecessary noise. I think it's good to show it. I'll tell a personal anecdote: When I first started using Neon I noticed games weren't performing very well, and since I didn't know what was wrong, I just assumed Linux drivers weren't as fast as Windows's. One day I had an epiphany and thought: "I can control the power profile on Windows, I wonder if I can do the same on Linux to improve performance". I had to Google a ton and it turned out Neon wasn't shipping the power-profile-daemon package. I installed it and Voilá! It fixed my problem. If Plasma showed power profiles were at least a possibility back then I could've solved the issue much earlier, unfortunately, it didn't and if I hadn't thought about changing the power profile I would still have the same problem until someone remembered to fix Neon. Maybe what could be done is showing an informational message explaining why power profiles are unavailable (eg. "your hardware does not support changing power profiles "or "power-profiles-daemon is not installed"), but I do think it's a good thing to show it even if you cannot interact with it. Also, in the screenshot, the only information available is that power profiles aren't available. If that got removed the applet would just be completely empty and it would look broken. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
