> I suspect that due to one reason or another the GNOME > applet polls the > device state at intervals, and does not actually hook > anything or > receive events of changed state, as Vista and OSX's > applets do. I'm not > aware of the technicals but due to concern for > efficiency, I could see > why currently it'd be an issue to have it poll at a > reasonable pace. > > James
Yes, I guess that is a reasonable possibility. It would be nice if the frequency of updates was increased after a change was detected. i.e. Update every 30 s or so, but if an "event" (new battery put in, power removed, applied, machine just booted) then the updates took place every 3 seconds for the next minute. If I've just pulled one battery out, there is a good change I intend putting another in - especially if I want to check the charge level on several. Likewise, if the machine has just booted, I'd probably want to know soon what the battery level is. But obviously a better solution is the one like windows, where the updates are "instant" all the time. This message posted from opensolaris.org
