While I can make any promises about anything in the very near future. I plan to take a look at bbapm and seeing if anything can be done to make it useful once again.
-- Regards, John Kennison Bachelor of Business (Management Information Systems) On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Alexander Volovics wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 06:48:00AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 06:42, Alexander Volovics wrote: > > > There are of course other non-GUI ways to get info about battery > > > load when using a laptop. > > > > > > But is is nice to have a icon and or toolbar graphical display. > > > So I tried to compile bbapm-0.0.1 (on RH 7.2 using gcc-2.96-98). > > > > > > Make gives the following "errors": > > > I ran into similar problems a while back. It appears that the bbapm > > package is not maintained and doesn't compile well (if at all) with the > > current release of Blackbox. GKrellM was suggested as an alternative to > > bbapm, and I've been quite happy with it. You might want to give it a > > try. You can find RPMs of this and many other useful applications at > > http://freshrpms.net. > > Thanks for the reply. I know gkrellm and have tried it out a couple > of times. But I find it exceedingly ugly on the 'desktop' and I have > no use for the default functionality. > > One of the reasons I started with blackbox is that it is also "minimal" > in appearance. I love an empty 'desktop' with just a slim tiny toolbar > and nothing else. A tiny bbapm icon with the same appearance/style as the > toolbaar would have been just acceptable. > > Hint, hint for the maintainers/developers of blackbox :-). > An (optional) tiny elegant battery load presenter on the toolbar > would be very welcome for laptop users. > > Alexander >
