ciavi / batteryland

Yet another battery icon for your system tray

BatteryLand

Yet another battery icon for your system tray This is my very first Linux-only, GTK+ and Vala app. Please don't be too harsh ;(

How it works

This app relies on UPower and DBus in order to function. It listens for the PropertiesChanged signal on the Device found in the org.freedesktop.UPower bus.

Features

• Indicates battery percentage
• Indicates battery status (Charging/Discharging)
• Supports custom icon themes (see down below)

Dependencies

libayatana-appindicator3-1
libgio-2_0-0
libglib-2_0-0
libgobject-2_0-0
libgtk-3-0
libsoup-2_4-1

and related development libraries

Installation

No packages (for the time being), manual installation only.

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/Ciavi/batteryland && cd batteryland

2. Configure the project

chmod +x configure && ./configure

3. Compile and install

cd builddir/ && ninja && ninja install

4. Enjoy!

batteryland

Usage

Run with default theme

batteryland

Run with the light theme

batteryland --theme default_light

Custom themes

Just have a look at the default themes, at how they're structured and then create a folder in the /usr/local/share/it.lichtzeit.batteryland/resources/{YOUR_THEME}. Then run it like this: batteryland --theme {YOUR_THEME}

batteryland's Issues

Application seems unresponsive without internet connection

Currently the application fetches synchronously the change-log from GitHub thru libsoup.
Unfortunately this approach will take way too long to even throw an unrecoverable error thus the about_window needs to be redesigned to use a different approach, preferably asynchronous.

Update README.md

It may be useful, in the near future and possibly before any production-ready release, to update the README.md file to include the following info:

• Dependencies
• Build instructions
• Installation instructions
• Customization instructions (for custom battery icons)

A new issue may be created to request or point out the absence of possibly useful data.