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When the charger cable is plugged in, several maintenance tasks (like btrfs-balancer, tracker and the like) could be automatically started to run in background.

I could think of an additional dialogue, in addition to the existing ones (developer mode, pc connection, charge only), or simply a settings entry.

Of course, you can always do that by running those tasks as devel-su from CLI. But from an average user's point of view it would be much more comfortable without that kind of interaction, especially for users not so experienced with CLI or no wish for activating developer mode at all.

When the charger cable is plugged in, several maintenance tasks (like btrfs-balancer, tracker tracker, backup and the like) could be automatically started to run in background.

I could think of an additional dialogue, in addition to the existing ones (developer mode, pc connection, charge only), or simply a settings entry.entry.

[A cool feature could be to add a custom script for custom jobs (rsync or tar for backups).]

Of course, you can always do that by running those tasks as devel-su from CLI. But from an average user's point of view it would be much more comfortable without that kind of interaction, especially for users not so experienced with CLI or no wish for activating developer mode at all.