Bug#441799: cpufreq applet should not display error on startup

[Philipp Kern]

Package: gnome-applets
Version: 2.14.3-4
Severity: wishlist

Dear gnome-applets maintainer,

the cpufreq applet should not display an error message about missing
cpufreq support on startup IMHO. It could just deactivate the scaling
support and just sit in the panel to display the frequency of the CPU.
It may be sensible to show a deactivated menu item "No cpufreq support"
in a popup menu triggered on left click.

Rationale: I use gnome-applets on home-on-NFS. Some clients in our
network are stationary laptops on which it is common to modify cpufreq
settings. The applet is a convenient way to do it. But it displays
a failure on every login on a host which does not support cpufreq,
which is annoying. I also use the applet to see the frequency of the
current CPU, so it is helpful even on those hosts.

I hope that the former two paragraphs made sense to you.

Thanks in advance,
Philipp Kern
Debian Developer