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

[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.

> 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?

Richard.