Option to display battery level below icon

It would be nice if there were a way to display the battery level below the icon, rather than to the left, for use on vertical panel layouts.

I suppose it would be better if this were handled automatically instead. I'll leave this open in connection with #76 and #147, but I think eventually only #147 should be implemented and #76 and #271 considered duplicates.

added 2. Feature 5. Panel Plugin/Systray labels

marked this issue as related to #76

marked this issue as related to #147

Thanks!!

Some level of configurability would still be nice -- for example, I patched line 1023 of power-manager-plugin.c to read

hbox = gtk_box_new (GTK_ORIENTATION_VERTICAL, 0);

instead of

hbox = gtk_box_new (GTK_ORIENTATION_HORIZONTAL, 0);

and got a very nice-looking result on my vertical panel:

Oh, sorry, I see that my panel is not actually a "vertical" panel but rather a "deskbar". So then I agree that autodetecting which type of panel is being used would allow for automatic handling to give a good behavior in all cases.

I tried to implement this using xfce_panel_plugin_get_mode (button->priv->plugin);, but it seems that (on my setup) this function always returns XFCE_PANEL_PLUGIN_MODE_HORIZONTAL regardless of the actual panel mode. I am guessing this is because at the time the plugin is created it is perhaps not assigned to the panel yet so the property is not available?

Yes, you should add something in power_manager_plugin_mode_changed.