Hi, Am Freitag, den 02.07.2010, 10:19 +0200 schrieb Joachim Breitner: > Am Freitag, den 02.07.2010, 10:07 +0200 schrieb Josselin Mouette: > > Le vendredi 02 juillet 2010 à 08:48 +0200, Joachim Breitner a écrit : > > > I’m a user of the battstat applet and was surprised to find it defunct > > > in the latest version. I has a look at the gnome-power-manager display, > > > but found it inferior to the applet: > > > * At least on my vertical panel, the gnome-power-manager icon was > > > shorter than the applet, thus provided a less exact view on the battery > > > status. > > > * g-p-m puts it in the _notification_ area, although it provides (at > > > least when permanently on) status information that I would like to place > > > freely on the panel, next to other status informations. This ways, it is > > > always at the same position, no matter how many notifications I am > > > receiving. > > > > The battstat applet is a nice one of course, but it uses an obsolete > > interface that we want to get rid of. > > > > It shouldn’t be too hard to port it to use upower instead of HAL. > > Unfortunately no one has found interest for it so far. > > just for reference, this seems to be a related upstream bug: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607254 > > You could just enable the ACPI code and see if users complain.
I just did that, but it turns out that does not work, at least on my computer. Maybe some acpi driver is missing, maybe the acpi code in battstat-applet is just bitrot. Looks like a port to upower is the only way to go :-( Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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