GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 424165
power management button should reflect g-p-m status
Last modified: 2007-04-02 17:14:37 UTC
It should either be disabled if g-p-m is not running or it should pop up a dialog explaining that g-p-m is not running and explain how to start it.
Hmm, I saw the RH bug report. But I'm confused as to why the gnome-power-preferences dialog doesn't start if gnome-power-manager isn't running. I agree that we shouldn't show the button if the gnome-power-preferences command isn't in the path. However, I think that it might be better for gnome-power-preferences to handle a warning message that gnome-power-manager isn't running.
I think that gnome-power-preferences will start gnome-power-manager if it isn't running. The original bug report was because gnome-power-manager wasn't installed, so checking for existence of the binary is probably good enough.
Ok, should be fixed in svn.