Re: the future of GNOME Applets

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>]

> On Maw, 2004-09-21 at 14:12, Davyd Madeley wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Also needs switching to audio ripping so it works on any PC post 2002/3
> or so...
>
>> 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.
>
> 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.

Don't "Longer battery, less performance", and "Higher performance, less
battery" options make more sense on the battery monitor applet?

And don't these belong also (or only) in the control center?

Murray Cumming
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