Bug#580429: Please disable hal support / battstat applet

[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.

Cheers,
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