Microsoft is finally adding a highly requested feature to the Taskbar on Windows 11

[Windows Central]

You'll soon be able to show your PCs battery percentage directly on the Taskbar in Windows 11.

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[arm]

from X - Windows 11's battery icon (in the system tray, quick settings and Settings app) is getting some visual changes: notably, it will turn orange when energy saver is enabled, and green when charging. (1/3) ((YEA !))

 

[GraniteStateColin]

That's good news.

Apologies that this is a bit off topic, but I feel compelled with any discussion on bringing back features to Start or Taskbar, in the hope of gaining some additional traction: my single biggest pain point with Windows 11 (compared with prior versions) is the missing Jump Lists from pinned items in Start.

Battery % in Taskbar is nice. I applaud it and will help when away from power on a laptop to monitor battery life and intuit rate of decline, but it's so much lower on my priority list than getting those essential Jump Lists back for pinned Start apps. Battery % is a nice-to-have. Jump Lists in pinned Start apps would save me multiple minutes per week, hours per year, especially on my desktop (more so than laptop). That's vastly more important, and ironically, un-pinned apps already support Jump Lists (which is an absurd choice -- Jump Lists help by providing fast access to documents and frequently used app functions, which means they're important for fast-access pinned apps, not slow-access unpinned apps), so I can't imagine this is a particularly complex restoration for MS.

 

[Laura Knotek]

I'd like to see a small taskbar with the option of double rows. That's what I used for years.