Some points/issues to discuss about the desktop (Wifi+Battery Applets)

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Jeff Waugh wrote:

><quote who="Mark Shuttleworth">
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>>So, in the "automatic deployment" scenario, the battery applet decides
>>there is no battery to manage and silently removes itself. In the "manual"
>>scenario, the user has added the battery applet to his panel and expects
>>it to be there and display an error if there is no battery (for example if
>>ACPI or APM fail to report the battery correctly).
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>... aand thus the laptop-detect + panel profiles interim solution. No silent
>removal (which I've *always* noted would be on-startup only, not after user
>intervention), it does the right thing in the majority of cases, and we
>actually have some hope of implementing it now.
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"startup only" doesn't help. Say we upgrade the kernel, and it breaks 
ACPI or APM. The battery applet, specifically put there by the user, 
then disappears silently on startup. Ouch.


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