[Feature Request]: Battery Indicator / Generic Status Indicators

[Cornelius-Figgle]

@mortie#25

Basically, are the ideas mentioned in the original issue planned to be implemented? I would love to be able to check the battery status without unlocking the screen every time

[mekb-turtle]

alternative idea: let specific windows (e.g waybar) be visible past swaylock, I'm not sure if that's possible though

[sidharthmrao]

I just added a PR for a battery percentage indicator, what should I do next? Or do I just wait until someone reviews it? First open source PR so I'm unsure.

[Cornelius-Figgle]

I will take a look at that!

I think a more generic way to create a custom indicator would be beneficial, ie a text element that displays the output of a command somehow.

[sidharthmrao]

That sounds good, I should be able to add that in pretty easily with the way I set up the battery indicator right now.

[sidharthmrao]

Updated it to work with any script and write the output text to the screen.

[Cornelius-Figgle]

awesome, I will take a look at it (at some point 😂).

Since I raised the original issue I no longer use Linux on my laptop (but I do my desktop) so the battery indicator isn't useful for me anymore, but I imagine it will for countless others, and generic script output will definitely be useful

PR #65 (linked here for completeness)