Re: [gpm] How could the inhibit applet be made more discoverable?

["Jason Spiro" <jasonspiro4 gmail com>]

2007/6/29, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>:
> On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 12:49 -0600, Jason Spiro wrote:
> > Hi all.  Thanks for all your work on g-p-m; it's great.  The inhibit
> > applet is also cool, but AFAIK you must look in the Add Applets to
> > Panel window to see it.  Wouldn't it be good if it were made more
> > discoverable?
>
> Hmm, until the new applet API is in GNOME we can't programmaticaly add
> applets to the panel.

So maybe it'd be better to wait?

> > I am not sure how you could do that though.  Maybe add another
> > checkbox to Power Management Preferences > General that will add the
> > applet to the top panel when you click it?  "Also show standby
> > inhibitor applet" or something.
>
> Well, using corba we just can do this now. As I said, with the new API
> this is possible, but ryans code is not yet upstream.
>
> > Or maybe pop up a tip when the user uses the cpanel to change "Put
> > computer to sleep when inactive for" more than 10 times in 1 year?
> > The tip would tell them about the applet and tell them how to enable
> > it.
>
> Hmm, a good idea but not really obvious enough in my opinion. You got
> any other ideas? Maybe just a tooltip in gnome-power-preferences when
> you hover over the combobox might be better?

I think a tooltip would work, even though people usually don't use
tooltips to convey that kind of information.  How about just adding
some text to the dialog box? e.g.

Tip: Want to temporarily stop your computer from going into standby
mode?  Try the "inhibit applet".  To add it to your taskbar, ...

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