Allow placeholders in battery status (change order of evaluation)

[i3]

Allow placeholders in battery status (change order of evaluation)

[egroat]

I like it. It is a simple, high impact change that should not add any complexity, nor break historic configurations.

I agree that it would work well in the situations #117 addresses

I would suggest making a PR for it (I would love to have it running in my statusbar!)

[stapelberg]

Sounds reasonable to me.

[mihaicmn]

What do you think about having some new formats like format_chr, format_bat, format_full, format_unk, format_below_threshold?

[stapelberg]

What do you think about having some new formats like format_chr, format_bat, format_full, format_unk, format_below_threshold?

What’s the use case for that? In general, we’d like to keep mental complexity of our configuration as low as possible.

[mihaicmn]

I use a custom BIOS setting which configures the battery to start charging at 50% and to stop at 60%. The problem that I have is related to the %remaining variable. With such settings, its value is relevant only when the battery discharges. Otherwise it indicates the remaining time until a full charge (which is wrong) or 00:00 when the upper threshold is reached (which is redundant). By having different formats I can mix the variables depending on the state of the battery.

While I agree that the proposed solution increases the mental complexity of configuration, I did not see a better solution to cover the above issues and #180

[stapelberg]

I use a custom BIOS setting which configures the battery to start charging at 50% and to stop at 60%

This screams “edge case” to me :). Why do you need this? Is your battery broken?

[mihaicmn]

No it isn't broken. I just want to extend its life as I switch quite often between battery and AC adapter.

[mjauvin]

I have a different use case.

When the battery is charging, the "remaining time" keeps changing from empty (no output) to the actual remaining time. I'd like to be able to HIDE the remaining time while the battery is charging as this is either broken or I don't care anyway for this information.