On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
since there is already a daemon (HAL and underlying power save software, like pmu, powersave, etc), why do we need another daemon? I think the current g-p-m architecture, with the 'daemon' being also the notification icon makes a lot of sense. If adding the tray icon on startup is wrong, then I guess we can easily delay the addition of the icon, like we do with the typing break, for instance.
I'd point out that (as mentioned on my blog) using `daemons' that are tasked with putting an icon in the panel cause extra memory usage. On my laptop, this is responsible for 3MB of private, dirty rss. My laptop is *plugged in* and it is using this.
The task of `display an icon on the panel when battery is being used' should not require this amount of memory.
-- Ben