Re: [gpm] Re: Gnome 2.16 Module Proposal: GNOME Power Manager

[David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>]

On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 21:12 +0200, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> 1. It's good design to split up parts which are doing different things
> ( You can also put all your code in one source file, but that's not good
> design )

Even though D-BUS indeed makes it easy to do IPC I fail to see why you'd
want to split g-p-m in two processes. Remeber that g-p-m is a lot more
than an icon; it also pops up dialogs from time to time...

> 2. An applet would be much more consistent with how GNOME works at the
> moment. If I want to add something to the panel I just add there by
> doing "Add to panel" and if I want to remove it I choose "Remove from
> panel". GNOME unlike windows luckily doesn't put many stuff
> automagically in the panel :-)

Suppose g-p-m was an applet instead of using the notification area. Do
you think it's a good idea to let users remove this applet? 

Basically I think the notification area is the right answer for UI
gizmos that directly relate to the state of the computer while applet is
the answer for UI gizmos that doesn't.

    David