The problem is that, without the units conversion information, the plugin can't work properly on all machine configurations; and we don't have all machine configurations to test with. The lm-sensors people have put extensive work into that part. Configure can be arranged so that it only builds the thermal plugin if libsensors is available.
Having gotten it prototyped, I think support for other kinds of monitoring such as fan speed falls out of the device enumeration. I plan to introduce a combo box so the user can pick which sensor they want to monitor. After that, same with the ALSA plugin and which volume they want to control. Definitely agree about the battery plugin. Will look into that also. On 03/23/2010 12:22 AM, PCMan wrote: > I'd suggest that you put this in lxpanel-plugins dir. Plugins in this > dir can be optional so by default lxpanel doesn't get additional > dependencies. Once upower gets stable, we should use it to handle the > battery plugin in the same way IMHO. > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Marty Jack <[email protected]> wrote: >> A forum post reminded me that, like the forum poster, the Thermal plugin >> reports NA on my system. I looked into this today. >> >> I know everyone is used to me saying we don't need to use the library for >> something, we can do it manually. In this case, the far better design >> choice is to use libsensors. The reason is that it knows how to find all >> the sensors on the system, and more importantly, it has accumulated >> knowledge in the /etc/sensors3.conf file about how to interpret the sensor >> readings and do the units conversion to the displayable value. >> >> I'm going to start prototyping this, but I thought the list should know in >> the event anyone has a comment. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval >> Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs >> proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. >> See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Lxde-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
