On 11/9/06, Richard Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In 2-15 we discussed including *both* gnome-power-manager and > battstat-applet in the release but I don't think we came to any hard > decisions. > > Now, with the greater integration of gnome-power-manager into other > desktop components, my opinion is we should drop battstat-applet from > the release. I think it's done a great job for many years, but I think > most (all?) distros are shipping g-p-m by default now (rather than the > applet) and having the applet as an option is superfluous. > > So, has anybody got any good reasons (or use-cases) for not doing so? I > think it's safe to assume that anybody using gnome 2.17.x uses HAL[1]. > > Thanks, > > Richard. > > [1] As a related note, solaris has just had a hal backend merged (thanks > to Artem Kachitchkine), and freebsd is *really* close to getting a > backend merged (thanks to Joe Marcus Clarke). > > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list >
The battery icon of g-p-m always gives me a bad impression of how much battery is left. This is a silly thing, I know. But when using the battery applet I always know how much battery I have just with a quick look. My theory is that the elaborated battery icon of g-p-m is not as "fastly-readable" as the black rectangle that fills with magical green fluid of battery applet. No matter the g-p-m icons look cool, they are not that informative in a quick look, IMHO. Ah, and now that I remember. The ability to place the % or time left in the applet makes battery applet even more informative without having to hover it to read the tooltip. I would like to see either the battery applet and g-p-m coexisting or g-p-m providing an applet equally informative as the battery applet, but of course with all the g-p-m magic. Greetings! -- "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win" -Ghandi http://diego.aureal.com.pe _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
