Battery Chart - Text Colour

Hi Dave,
As always, thanks for all your effort on this plugin.

It would be useful to able to specify the text colour when selecting Show Battery Level. At the moment if you select a light green colour for the Healthy colour then the white text gets lost.

Also, I can't remember whether I have suggested this before, but it would be useful to set the whole bar to red if the battery is zero - so it stands out.

I am running the latest Github release = v0.7.33

Hi Dave,
As always, thanks for all your effort on this plugin.

It would be useful to able to specify the text colour when selecting Show Battery Level. At the moment if you select a light green colour for the Healthy colour then the white text gets lost.

Also, I can't remember whether I have suggested this before, but it would be useful to set the whole bar to red if the battery is zero - so it stands out.

I am running the latest Github release = v0.7.33

Hi Jon - thanks for the nice words. I have a new build up on GitHub (not an official release) that I'm currently testing for release. I'll add your suggestions to the list for the next one. A couple notes:

Adding a separate text color control gets away from a core design principle that I have with the plugin which is to adjust most chart colors with a single change within the plugin config dialog. That said, there are unique color controls for lines, bars, etc. What about a "override text color" control for battery health devices? Another option here would be, instead of changing the text color, have the numeric value be an annotation (on or off) with a background like other chart annotation settings. (This would be my preference, actually.)

I will try to come up with some way to highlight batteries at zero percent. Great suggestion.

How about this

That’s awesome. I know you’re at least half kidding, but I haven’t used image files in plots yet. There’s issues with scaling—both DPI and bar size within the chart.

Right now, in my mind at least, I’m leaning towards a “patch” (term of art in Matplotlib.)


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Would using SVG file(s) - (assuming that is possible - I don't know) solve the scaling problems?

Yes, I was kidding, for some reason when I read the post that graphic came to my mind

It's one of those things that's probably technically possible, but I suspect the amount of effort to make it work well would be non-trivial.