After an evaluation, GNOME has moved from Bugzilla to GitLab. Learn more about GitLab.
No new issues can be reported in GNOME Bugzilla anymore.
To report an issue in a GNOME project, go to GNOME GitLab.
Do not go to GNOME Gitlab for: Bluefish, Doxygen, GnuCash, GStreamer, java-gnome, LDTP, NetworkManager, Tomboy.
Bug 353416 - gnome-power-manager should use new applet infrastructure
gnome-power-manager should use new applet infrastructure
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-power-manager
Classification: Deprecated
Component: gnome-power-manager
SVN TRUNK
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: GNOME Power Manager Maintainer(s)
GNOME Power Manager Maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-08-29 15:33 UTC by Richard Hughes
Modified: 2010-10-22 09:03 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Richard Hughes 2006-08-29 15:33:08 UTC 
In reference to http://blogs.gnome.org/view/ryanl/2006/08/21/0, we should probably move away from GtkStatusIcon for 2.18 to the new applet stuff Ryan has proposed. When this stuff hits gnome CVS I'll have a play and see if it does everything we need.

See http://desrt.mcmaster.ca/random/applets.tar.gz for code.

Comments?
Comment 1 William Jon McCann 2006-08-29 16:05:44 UTC 
Why would you want to have an applet instead of a notification area icon?  What are the specific advantages?  It makes sense for a clock but I don't think it makes sense for a daemon...
Comment 2 Richard Hughes 2006-08-29 16:53:47 UTC 
Ohh the new applets are actually like notification icons :-) Basically, it lets them be "put" in the panel wherever the user likes. We can still add an applet from the session daemon as we do with the GtkStatusIcon. Sound sane?
Comment 3 William Jon McCann 2006-08-29 17:06:01 UTC 
Not really.  That doesn't sound like a good enough advantage to me.  What actual problems does this solve?

Some of the downsides are obvious I think: we link to more libs, complicate the code, use more memory, don't support the xdg notification area (so g-p-m won't work in xfce or kde), etc.

Also the gpm icon is not always visible in some configurations and it may be better for visibility changes to occur in the well known notification area rather than in any part of any panel.