Jaap Haitsma wrote:
Richard,
As far as I understand the code of GPM splitting up GPM in a "daemon"
and a "notication area icon"/applet would not be so hard.
They are pretty independent from each other.
The "daemon" just has to watch batteries, laptop lid, hardware keys and
take appropriate actions etc. If people run the daemon then they get all
the power management features.
The applet/"notification area icon" just needs to watch the batteries
(code of the daemon can be reused :-) )and show the status by changing
it's icon and displaying notifications.
The only message I see that the "daemon" might want to send to the
applet is a message that the system is going to suspend/hibernate and
that is already something we want to do to notify other apps that the
system is going to suspend/sleep and that they need to take appropriate
actions if necessary.
So in my opinion it's not that difficult, or am I missing something?
But what's the point?
1. It's good design to split up parts which are doing different things
( You can also put all your code in one source file, but that's not good
design )
2. An applet would be much more consistent with how GNOME works at the
moment. If I want to add something to the panel I just add there by
doing "Add to panel" and if I want to remove it I choose "Remove from
panel". GNOME unlike windows luckily doesn't put many stuff
automagically in the panel :-)
It's worth pointing out that gnome-power-manager is very much a notifier
rather than an interactive applet. If your power cable falls out, it
pops up a message saying you've lost power. If you're working away from
a power source, there's a battery indicator with how much power you've
got left... that disappears when you're fully charged.
(At least, that's how it's configured on my system.)
So I don't think a notification-area applet is unreasonable.
--
Andrew
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