Re: Really miss my panel applets.

[Chris Jones]

I recently wrote an article that relates to this topic. It's only  
short, so feel free to take a look at it here. bit.ly/kQFgWk


And feel free to comment.


Regards

Chris Jones


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Re: Really miss my panel applets.

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Freitag, den 03.06.2011, 07:50 -0600 schrieb Vernon Cole:
> I am starting to get used to the Unity desktop. It's still hard to
> find some things that were formerly easy, but I'm getting there. 
> At this point, the thing I miss the most are my panel applets, one for
> fun, three to monitor my computer.
> Screenshot.png
> (screen shot of "eyes" and "system monitor" applets)
> 
> How can I get equivalent functionality back?

As already said by others, indicator-multiload provides the same
functionality as the "system monitor" applet. You can install
indicator-multiload on Ubuntu 11.04 via backports (hopefully) very soon
(bug #793709 [1]).

[1] https://launchpad.net/bugs/793709

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Re: Really miss my panel applets.

[León Asad Castillejos]

You might be interested in this indicator...
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/06/hardware-monitor-applet-indicator-systemload-updates-adds-real-time-stats-to-menu

2011/6/6 León Asad Castillejos 

> I miss Mandrake, and the way Ubuntu logged out smoothly and played an exit
> sound instead of ending abruptly... But hey, technology is moving forward
> and those are just little details, Unity and Shell both offer a unique point
> of view about how computing should be. It's not fair to say something is not
> good just because you don't want to learn it... After all, computing is the
> most rapidly evolving technology on Earth. Like it or not, computers are
> not, never were and never will be static forever. Changes are needed, new
> ideas come, and new concepts and technique emerge... We just can't always
> stick to TWM forever...
>
>
> 2011/6/5 李白|字一日 
>
>> i miss the old days when ubuntu was based on gnome2...
>>
>> 2011/6/3 Vernon Cole 
>>
>>> I am starting to get used to the Unity desktop. It's still hard to find
>>> some things that were formerly easy, but I'm getting there.
>>> At this point, the thing I miss the most are my panel applets, one for
>>> fun, three to monitor my computer.
>>> [image: Screenshot.png]
>>> (screen shot of "eyes" and "system monitor" applets)
>>>
>>> How can I get equivalent functionality back?
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Re: Really miss my panel applets.

[León Asad Castillejos]

I miss Mandrake, and the way Ubuntu logged out smoothly and played an exit
sound instead of ending abruptly... But hey, technology is moving forward
and those are just little details, Unity and Shell both offer a unique point
of view about how computing should be. It's not fair to say something is not
good just because you don't want to learn it... After all, computing is the
most rapidly evolving technology on Earth. Like it or not, computers are
not, never were and never will be static forever. Changes are needed, new
ideas come, and new concepts and technique emerge... We just can't always
stick to TWM forever...

2011/6/5 李白|字一日 

> i miss the old days when ubuntu was based on gnome2...
>
> 2011/6/3 Vernon Cole 
>
>> I am starting to get used to the Unity desktop. It's still hard to find
>> some things that were formerly easy, but I'm getting there.
>> At this point, the thing I miss the most are my panel applets, one for
>> fun, three to monitor my computer.
>> [image: Screenshot.png]
>> (screen shot of "eyes" and "system monitor" applets)
>>
>> How can I get equivalent functionality back?
>> --
>> Vernon Cole
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Re: Really miss my panel applets.

[李白|字一日]

i miss the old days when ubuntu was based on gnome2...

2011/6/3 Vernon Cole 

> I am starting to get used to the Unity desktop. It's still hard to find
> some things that were formerly easy, but I'm getting there.
> At this point, the thing I miss the most are my panel applets, one for fun,
> three to monitor my computer.
> [image: Screenshot.png]
> (screen shot of "eyes" and "system monitor" applets)
>
> How can I get equivalent functionality back?
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Re: Really miss my panel applets.

[Conrad Knauer]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Conrad Knauer  wrote:

>> I am starting to get used to the Unity desktop. It's still hard to find some 
>> things that were formerly easy, but I'm getting there.
>> At this point, the thing I miss the most are my panel applets, one for fun, 
>> three to monitor my computer.
>>
>> (screen shot of "eyes" and "system monitor" applets)
>>
>> How can I get equivalent functionality back?
>
> I was actually thinking about this the other day; why wasn't Gnome
> panel applet support included as part of the transition to Unity?
> Something like is currently available for XFCE:
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/xfce4-xfapplet-plugin

One of the better suggestions out there is to just run gnome-panel in
addtion to Unity:
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/12/get-your-favourite-gnome-panel-applets.html
And considering in Natty that it is on the LiveCD already (can't
remember if it installs both though), this might be a good interim
solution.

BTW, I note on http://lists.debian.org/debian-gtk-gnome/2011/02/msg0.html
that Debian was interested in porting the GNOME2 panel applets to
GNOME3

As an aside, does anyone else consider that since Ubuntu is switching
to Unity, we might now want a regular GNOME version? ('Gubuntu' ala
Kubuntu and Xubuntu)  Mono-free please though O:)

CK

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Re: Really miss my panel applets.

[Aurélien Naldi]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson  wrote:
> On 2011-06-03 15:50, Vernon Cole wrote:
>> ... the thing I miss the most are my panel applets, one for fun,
>> three to monitor my computer.
>> Screenshot.png
>> (screen shot of "eyes" and "system monitor" applets)
>>
>> How can I get equivalent functionality back?
>
> Somebody suggested me to execute this command:
>
> gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['all']"
>
> It has proved to work fine so far.

Hi,

good to know that we can change this whitelist easily, but it is only
for "notification area" programs. As far as I know, the unity panel
does not support gnome panel applets at all (just like the new panel
in gnome-shell).

What bothers me the most is that "indicators" supported by the unity
panel are not supported by the gnome-shell. On the up-side, at least
indicators force to separate UI from the backend, which should make it
feasible to adapt them. In this respect it is a much better solution
than the old panel applets (but less flexible).

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Re: Really miss my panel applets.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2011-06-03 15:50, Vernon Cole wrote:
> ... the thing I miss the most are my panel applets, one for fun,
> three to monitor my computer.
> Screenshot.png
> (screen shot of "eyes" and "system monitor" applets)
> 
> How can I get equivalent functionality back?

Somebody suggested me to execute this command:

gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['all']"

It has proved to work fine so far.

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Re: Really miss my panel applets.

[Oscar Gutierrez Parra]

I know it has nothing to do with applets!, but I've been having troubles i
never had before with ubuntu (I've been usingit since 7.10)!!! every now and
then my laptop freezes out of nothing! even when i'm just using firefox! and
it's annoying, I have to shot it down keeping pressed the power button, and
in the end it will affect my laptop! =( Do you know how can I solve this!?
Does anyone of you had the same problem!?

Oscar


2011/6/3 Ray Wang 

> You probably want to try this, Vernon. :)
> https://launchpad.net/*indicator-multiload*
>
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Vernon Cole  wrote:
>
>> I am starting to get used to the Unity desktop. It's still hard to find
>> some things that were formerly easy, but I'm getting there.
>> At this point, the thing I miss the most are my panel applets, one for
>> fun, three to monitor my computer.
>> [image: Screenshot.png]
>> (screen shot of "eyes" and "system monitor" applets)
>>
>> How can I get equivalent functionality back?
>> --
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Re: Really miss my panel applets.

[Ray Wang]

You probably want to try this, Vernon. :)
https://launchpad.net/*indicator-multiload*

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Vernon Cole  wrote:

> I am starting to get used to the Unity desktop. It's still hard to find
> some things that were formerly easy, but I'm getting there.
> At this point, the thing I miss the most are my panel applets, one for fun,
> three to monitor my computer.
> [image: Screenshot.png]
> (screen shot of "eyes" and "system monitor" applets)
>
> How can I get equivalent functionality back?
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Re: Really miss my panel applets.

[León Asad Castillejos]

2011/6/3 Conrad Knauer 

> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Vernon Cole  wrote:
>
> > I am starting to get used to the Unity desktop. It's still hard to find
> some things that were formerly easy, but I'm getting there.
> > At this point, the thing I miss the most are my panel applets, one for
> fun, three to monitor my computer.
> >
> > (screen shot of "eyes" and "system monitor" applets)
> >
> > How can I get equivalent functionality back?
>
> I was actually thinking about this the other day; why wasn't Gnome
> panel applet support included as part of the transition to Unity?
> Something like is currently available for XFCE:
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/xfce4-xfapplet-plugin
>
> CK
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There's a system monitor that does exactly that. It's attached to an
indicator and the user can click it to show the system load. Don't remember
its name tho, but searching for "monitor indicator ubuntu" or something like
that should bring up some results.
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Re: Really miss my panel applets.

[Conrad Knauer]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Vernon Cole  wrote:

> I am starting to get used to the Unity desktop. It's still hard to find some 
> things that were formerly easy, but I'm getting there.
> At this point, the thing I miss the most are my panel applets, one for fun, 
> three to monitor my computer.
>
> (screen shot of "eyes" and "system monitor" applets)
>
> How can I get equivalent functionality back?

I was actually thinking about this the other day; why wasn't Gnome
panel applet support included as part of the transition to Unity?
Something like is currently available for XFCE:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/xfce4-xfapplet-plugin

CK

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Really miss my panel applets.

[Vernon Cole]

I am starting to get used to the Unity desktop. It's still hard to find some
things that were formerly easy, but I'm getting there.
At this point, the thing I miss the most are my panel applets, one for fun,
three to monitor my computer.
[image: Screenshot.png]
(screen shot of "eyes" and "system monitor" applets)

How can I get equivalent functionality back?
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