> > Richard, > > > > > > As far as I understand the code of GPM splitting up GPM in a "daemon" > > and a "notication area icon"/applet would not be so hard. > > > > They are pretty independent from each other. > > > > The "daemon" just has to watch batteries, laptop lid, hardware keys and > > take appropriate actions etc. If people run the daemon then they get all > > the power management features. > > > > The applet/"notification area icon" just needs to watch the batteries > > (code of the daemon can be reused :-) )and show the status by changing > > it's icon and displaying notifications. > > > > The only message I see that the "daemon" might want to send to the > > applet is a message that the system is going to suspend/hibernate and > > that is already something we want to do to notify other apps that the > > system is going to suspend/sleep and that they need to take appropriate > > actions if necessary. > > > > So in my opinion it's not that difficult, or am I missing something? > > But what's the point? >
1. It's good design to split up parts which are doing different things ( You can also put all your code in one source file, but that's not good design ) 2. An applet would be much more consistent with how GNOME works at the moment. If I want to add something to the panel I just add there by doing "Add to panel" and if I want to remove it I choose "Remove from panel". GNOME unlike windows luckily doesn't put many stuff automagically in the panel :-) Jaap _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
