gnome: display of battery charge as a percent

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

On a notebook, gnome displays the state of the battery at the right end of 
the top bar of the screen.

I find that a percentage of full charge is a clearer way to present this 
data.

It used to be an option in the gnome Tweaks tool, under "top bar".  This 
seems to be gone in Fedora 36.  You can get use this shell command:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface show-battery-percentage true

This seems like useful functionality.
- why not make it the default?
- why remove it from tweaks?
- why make it so hard to discover?

I understand that gnome folks like to simplify things, but surely "tweaks" 
is a great place to stuff useful options that are not important enough to 
put in the main (simple) settings mechanism.

[Roger Wells]

On 7/7/22 12:12, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> On a notebook, gnome displays the state of the battery at the right end of
> the top bar of the screen.
>
> I find that a percentage of full charge is a clearer way to present this
> data.
>
> It used to be an option in the gnome Tweaks tool, under "top bar".  This
> seems to be gone in Fedora 36.  You can get use this shell command:
>
> gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface show-battery-percentage true
>
> This seems like useful functionality.
> why not make it the default?
> why remove it from tweaks?
> why make it so hard to discover?
>
> I understand that gnome folks like to simplify things, but surely "tweaks"
> is a great place to stuff useful options that are not important enough to
> put in the main (simple) settings mechanism.

FWIW
I did a clean install of F36/Gnome.
On the right end of the top bar: battery percent text next to a picture 
of a battery indicating the same and whether it is being charged.
Quite nice
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[Samuel Sieb]

On 2022-07-07 09:12, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> On a notebook, gnome displays the state of the battery at the right end of
> the top bar of the screen.
>
> I find that a percentage of full charge is a clearer way to present this
> data.
>
> It used to be an option in the gnome Tweaks tool, under "top bar".  This
> seems to be gone in Fedora 36.  You can get use this shell command:
>
> gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface show-battery-percentage true
>
> This seems like useful functionality.
> why not make it the default?
> why remove it from tweaks?
> why make it so hard to discover?

They actually made it *easier*.  It's not in tweaks because it's in the 
power settings of the control center.