[gpm] How could the inhibit applet be made more discoverable?

["Jason Spiro" <jasonspiro4 gmail com>]

Hi all.  Thanks for all your work on g-p-m; it's great.  The inhibit
applet is also cool, but AFAIK you must look in the Add Applets to
Panel window to see it.  Wouldn't it be good if it were made more
discoverable?

I am not sure how you could do that though.  Maybe add another
checkbox to Power Management Preferences > General that will add the
applet to the top panel when you click it?  "Also show standby
inhibitor applet" or something.

Or maybe pop up a tip when the user uses the cpanel to change "Put
computer to sleep when inactive for" more than 10 times in 1 year?
The tip would tell them about the applet and tell them how to enable
it.  One problem this raises is the question of how to pop up tips
without annoying the user like OpenOffice 2.0 and MS Office 97 do.  I
propose that, sort of like Qemulator[1]'s config window does, you pop
up a large yellow tooltip box just outside the Power Management
Preferences window.

Cheers,
Jason

[1] http://qemulator.createweb.de -- but none of the screenshots there
show you Qemulator's tooltips unfortunately.

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