Hey all, Been thinking a lot lately about the applets in GNOME. Some of them are seriously underloved. Going through the list: Battery Charge Monitor Needs a rewrite to use HAL, waiting for HAL to support batteries. Keep. CD Player Haven't looked at this, suspect it will want integration with Sound Juicer. It's possible that this should instead be replaced by some applet that links with a media player (when we include a media player in GNOME). Keep, for now. Character Palette Keep. Wish we had a new icon though. Clock Keep Command Line Keep CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor We need to add one of these. There are a number of options here personally, I want to get one that uses HAL, however HAL doesn't currently have Processor devices either. Dictionary Lookup Keep Disk Mounter This applet looks ugly, has a confusing interface and looks like a bad GNOME2 port of a GNOME1 applet. Completely unmaintained. Almost everything it does has been replaced by g-v-m or computer://. Plus it doesn't work on Solaris. It would have to be completely rewritten to use gnome-volume-manager, although I'm not sure how useful it would be. I propose stopping it from compiling by default but not removing the code. Fish Keep Geyes Keep Inbox Monitor People use this (I think). Personally I think it should be turned off by default when it can be replaced by an Evolution notification icon. Keep for now. Keyboard Accessibility Status Keep Keyboard Indicator Keep, though the icon could do with some loving, I think someone did one in fact. Modem Lights I'm sure this could be replaced by Network Monitor in the future. What do people think should happen with this one? Notification Area Keep Sticky Notes Keep Stock Ticker Keep, but needs some code loving. System Monitor Keep Trash Applet Latest Addition Volume Applet Recently rewritten Weather Report Keep Window List Keep Window Selector Keep Wireless Link Monitor This has been completely superseeded by gnome-netstatus, plus hopefully gnome-netstatus is going to get some serious HAL lovin in the near future making it even more useful. FC is turning off this applet in their packages, I would like to turn it off by default here too. Workspace Switcher Keep I also want to add Ross Burton's contact lookup applet (when he's ready). What do people think of these plans? It has been commented there are too many applets currently. However the applets are one of the most used parts of the desktop. We don't want to ship second rate applets, but I really want other people's opinions. --d -- http://davyd.ucc.asn.au/ PGP Fingerprint <http://davyd.ucc.asn.au/pgp> 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F 5191 6CDA
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