Re: Trimming down gnome-applets (and removing HAL dependency)

2009-08-02 Thread Martin Pitt
Bryan Quigley [2009-08-02 12:18 +0530]: > Neither for full removal but they just shouldn't be ran per user at startup: > Jockey - purpose is *notification* of hardware changes. The tricky thing is that something in the desktop session needs to call the jockey backend to actually know. It's just re

Re: Trimming down gnome-applets (and removing HAL dependency)

2009-08-02 Thread Martin Pitt
Hey Chris, Chris Coulson [2009-08-02 14:02 +0100]: > When we remove an applet currently, we actually make it > a Null applet which will clean itself from the users config the next > time they load their panel. If we split modemlights in to it's own > package, then the extra package would need to b

Re: Trimming down gnome-applets (and removing HAL dependency)

2009-08-02 Thread Chris Coulson
On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 09:59 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > I'm not personally attached to this. To me it sounds that > functionality which people need should rather be added to nm-applet. > Is there a chance to split it out as a separate binary, so that it can > get a dependency to g-network-admin and

Re: Trimming down gnome-applets (and removing HAL dependency)

2009-08-02 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello Chris, Chris Coulson [2009-08-02 0:26 +0100]: > *** battstatus *** > > This currently is able to use either a HAL backend or the > legacy /proc/acpi interface for obtaining battery information. This has > previously been (and might still be) a source of bugs when the legacy > interface pre

Re: Trimming down gnome-applets (and removing HAL dependency)

2009-08-02 Thread Chris Coulson
On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 12:18 +0530, Bryan Quigley wrote: > I agree on those two and have two more to add. (If these are already > gone/changed in karmic, sorry) > Neither for full removal but they just shouldn't be ran per user at > startup: > Jockey - purpose is notification of hardware changes.