Re: gnome-power-manager and battstat-applet

["Diego Escalante" <diego aureal com pe>]

On 11/9/06, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> wrote:
> In 2-15 we discussed including *both* gnome-power-manager and
> battstat-applet in the release but I don't think we came to any hard
> decisions.
>
> Now, with the greater integration of gnome-power-manager into other
> desktop components, my opinion is we should drop battstat-applet from
> the release. I think it's done a great job for many years, but I think
> most (all?) distros are shipping g-p-m by default now (rather than the
> applet) and having the applet as an option is superfluous.
>
> So, has anybody got any good reasons (or use-cases) for not doing so? I
> think it's safe to assume that anybody using gnome 2.17.x uses HAL[1].
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard.
>
> [1] As a related note, solaris has just had a hal backend merged (thanks
> to Artem Kachitchkine), and freebsd is *really* close to getting a
> backend merged (thanks to Joe Marcus Clarke).
>
>
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The battery icon of g-p-m always gives me a bad impression of how much
battery is left. This is a silly thing, I know. But when using the
battery applet I always know how much battery I have just with a quick
look.
My theory is that the elaborated battery icon of g-p-m is not as
"fastly-readable" as the black rectangle that fills with magical green
fluid of battery applet.
No matter the g-p-m icons look cool, they are not that informative in
a quick look, IMHO.

Ah, and now that I remember. The ability to place the % or time left
in the applet makes battery applet even more informative without
having to hover it to read the tooltip.

I would like to see either the battery applet and g-p-m coexisting or
g-p-m providing an applet equally informative as the battery applet,
but of course with all the g-p-m magic.

Greetings!

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