Fwd: cpu frequency extension for gnome-shell

[俞颐超 <yyc1992 gmail com>]

sorry I forgot to reply-all.


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From: 俞颐超 <yyc1992 gmail com>
Date: 2011/6/28
Subject: Re: cpu frequency extension for gnome-shell
To: Thanasis Georgiou <sakisds gmx com>


On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:16 AM, 俞颐超 <yyc1992 gmail com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Thanasis Georgiou <sakisds gmx com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 09:36 -0400, 俞颐超 wrote:
>>> Hi Everyone:
>>> I wrote a gnome shell extension to changed the cpu frequency in gnome-shell.
>>> It is far from finished but at least it is kind of working now.
>>> According to some of gnome-shell's saying, most users will not
>>> interested in the frequency of cpu, so I can only wish the rest of few
>>> users to be interested in this. ;P
>>>
>>> I wrote this basically because I haven't found any other extensions
>>> like this. Please correct me if there really is and any feedback is
>>> welcome.
>>> The extension can be found here: https://github.com/yuyichao/gnome-shell-cpufreq
>>> and here (https://github.com/yuyichao/gnome-shell-overview-icon) is
>>> another extension that display icon in overview mode which I think
>>> will make finding window in overview mode a little easier. The second
>>> one is really tiny so I don't want to write another email for it.
>>>
>>> You need cpufreq-selector from gnome-applets to make the extension
>>> work and strongly recommend to add a polkit policy to avoid entering
>>> password every time.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> Yichao Yu
>>
>> The overview icon extension is really useful but kinda buggy. For
>> example, the icons disappear during most animations and it's like they
>> are flashing. Also the icon stays even after closing an application from
>> the overview.
>
> The second one is really a bug and I will try to fix it.

this one if fixed, and the archlinux package in aur @
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=50133 will be automatically
update within one hour (half an hour actually)

> For the first one, the icon is actually hidden along with the title.
> This is the best way I can found now. But still, I will try to find
> out how to make the icon move along with the window.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
>>
>> If you fix these two problems, it will be an excellent extension.
>>
>> Thanks for your work.
>>
>>
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