On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 12:18 +0530, Bryan Quigley wrote: > I agree on those two and have two more to add. (If these are already > gone/changed in karmic, sorry) > Neither for full removal but they just shouldn't be ran per user at > startup: > Jockey - purpose is notification of hardware changes. > Update manager - purpose is notification of updates available > > Thoughts? > > On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Chris Coulson > <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > As you're all aware, the mixer-applet was recently disabled in > Karmic. > This got me thinking about whether we need all the other > applets we > currently have on the default install, and I wondered whether > there were > any others that could be disabled too. > > I just wanted to know what everyone else thought. The ones > that are > currently installed which I think could probably be disabled > are: > > *** battstatus *** > > This currently is able to use either a HAL backend or the > legacy /proc/acpi interface for obtaining battery information. > This has > previously been (and might still be) a source of bugs when the > legacy > interface presents inconsistent information compared to what > gnome-power-manager says (eg, battstatus saying laptop is on > AC where > g-p-m says it is on battery). AFAIK, the legacy /proc/acpi > interface has > been deprecated for some time, and we don't really want the > HAL backend > either. I'm not sure what benefit this adds in addition to the > gnome-power-manager status icon, but I think it is a good > candidate for > removal. It is also the only applet in gnome-applets which > depends on > HAL. Fedora don't ship this applet currently. > > *** modemlights *** > > This has a dependency on network-admin from gnome-system-tools > which we > don't even install by default anymore, so is crippled on the > default > install anyway. To be functional, users will need to manually > download > gnome-network-admin, so I'm not sure if we'd lose anything by > removing > this applet. > > Do people have any objections to removing these applets, or > know if any > users are still using them? Perhaps you can think of some > other applets > that could also be disabled? Is there any use-case I have > missed which > would prohibit the removal of these 2 applets? > > Regards > Chris > > > > -- > ubuntu-desktop mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop > Thank you for your input, but I started this really to talk specifically about gnome-applets. If you want to talk about removing other session agents, then you might be better off starting a new topic with a more appropriate title. And I don't really agree that you could remove the 2 examples you gave from user sessions anyway.
Regards Chris -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
