Re: the future of GNOME Applets

[Stephane Demurget <stephane demurget free fr>]

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 16:52 +0200, Carlos Garcia Campos wrote:
> > You want more than monitor - a lot of the systems can set policies so
> > you want policy selector. These tend to include "performance", "maximum
> > battery life" and the like. Sometimes you need to switch at runtime (eg
> > when playing bzflag) to avoid the CPU speed change messing with your
> > game.
>
> For to set a policy is necessary to be root and in a common case an
> applet is not running as root. I think it can be solved by using an
> external program as a policy selector. It will prompt for root password,
> like the clock applet does calling to gst to set the time. The problem
> is that it could be an annoying process for a so simple task.
that's what is completely solved by emifreq applet: http://zzrough.free.fr/emifreq.php
If the little daemon is started, you get the ability to have a really simple popup menu to
change of governor and or frequency, like other desktop does, but the "it works" way.

I can understand we don't want a daemon at this stage though. The only security flaw involved is being more vulnerable by DOS attack I suppose.

cheers,

--Stef