Comment 13 for bug 824629

Just had a chat with Javier (see bug 861300) and it seems I've just got bitten by this change . The new default behaviour (where "show time in menu bar" is not enabled) is that:

  - if the battery is charging, you see a battery *outline* with a zig-zag within it.
  - when the battery is charging/charged, you see a partially/fully filled battery icon with *no* zig-zag.

The problem here is that if the battery is fully charged it is (now) impossible to distinguish visually if the system is on AC power or not, which I find confusing.

My preference would be to:

- *Always* show a "filled" icon (partially filled or fully filled).
- If on AC power, just overlay the zig-zag onto the filled icon.

This way there is no ambiguity and no visual information about where my system is sucking power from is lost.