Re: My (ongoing) analysis of the proposed modules
- From: Luis Villa <louie ximian com>
- To: GNOME Desktop Hackers <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: My (ongoing) analysis of the proposed modules
- Date: 14 May 2003 08:04:17 -0400
On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 01:18, Glynn Foster wrote:
> > So, basically, the 'have a notion of power management beyond the battery
> > applet' is a good idea, but it seems like we need much more testing and
> > integration of this code base before we consider throwing out something
> > that works, presenting us both with new testing issues and upgrade
> > problems (as jeff mentions in his worms.) [Aside: maybe GEP 10 needs to
> > explicitly say 'things replacing old, tested apps should face a higher
> > standard of scrutiny'?]
>
> Yeah, I'm willing to postpone this until it's more properly thought out.
> FWIW, battfink uses exactly the same code as battstat for the ACPI
> stuff, so it *should* be working the same. I think we could probably do
> the 'Yet Another Capplet' discussion at GU4DEC though.
Thanks for clarifying that.
> It would probably also be a good idea to try and sort out the
> notification area guidelines in the meantime too, so we can bring some
> sort of consistancy to everything that is using the feature.
<nod> Maybe rule #1 should be 'no pulsating animations.' ;)
> > |zenity
> > [lean towards yes until we actually have a sysadmin tools thing]
> >
> > Basically, it'd be a big regression if we nuke this functionality now.
> > That would be a shame.
>
> And a regression if someone doesn't stand up to write the compatibility
> gdialog/zenity script thing.
Oh, sure. But at least there is something to port to.
Luis
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