>I believe you can still see estimated battery time remaining if you click on the panel menu (top right?).
Yes. And this is _much_ less convenience. When I am racing against the clock trying to get something done before my battery runs out, the last thing I want to have to do is move my mouse up to the corner of the screen and click just to see how much time I have left. What I want to be able to do is glance quickly at the corner while continuing to work. The new functionality -- percentage instead of time remaining -- is simply an inferior user experience. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1728045 Title: Please restore battery time remaining to top bar! Status in GNOME Shell: Confirmed Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: In Ubuntu 17.04 and earlier, I was able to display the amount of battery life remaining AS TIME in the top bar of my screen. Now all I'm able to display, in 17.10, is the battery percentage. Frankly, I don't give a flying fig about battery percentage, and I'm not sure most other people do either. What I care about is how much time I have left to work on my laptop before it's out of power. If you want to display _both_ the percentage and the time remaining, or allow the user to choose which to display, that would be great. But just taking away the eminently useful time remaining and replacing it with the much less useful percentage is annoying and should be fixed. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: gnome-shell 3.26.1-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Fri Oct 27 09:13:40 2017 DisplayManager: gdm3 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-05-19 (160 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412) SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-20 (6 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-shell/+bug/1728045/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp