Bug#654885: gnome-power-manager: choosing "Preferences" from applet menu has no effect (not even error message) if gnome-control-center is not installed

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Package: gnome-power-manager
Version: 3.2.1-2

I have a gnome-power applet running in my dock (using openbox as my
window-manager, fwiw).

If i click on it and choose "Preferences" from the menu, nothing
visibly happens.

If i attach strace to it (strace -f -p $(pidof gnome-power-manager)),
i see it forking a child process, which in turn tries to exec
gnome-control-center but fails.

If it can't find gnome-control-center, it should at least report the
failure to the user so they don't wait indefinitely wondering what's
up (and perhaps suggest to install gnome-control-center).

Alternately, gnome-power-manager should probably depend on
gnome-control-center.

Thanks for maintaining gnome-power-manager in debian.

Regards,

        --dkg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-power-manager depends on:
ii  consolekit                                   0.4.5-1
ii  dbus-x11                                     1.4.16-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.10.0-3
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                        3.2.2-2
ii  libc6                                        2.13-23
ii  libcairo2                                    1.10.2-6.2
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.30.2-4
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.2.3-1
ii  libpango1.0-0                                1.29.4-2
ii  libupower-glib1                              0.9.15-1
ii  notification-daemon                          0.7.3-1
ii  upower                                       0.9.15-1

gnome-power-manager recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnome-power-manager suggests:
ii  policykit-1  0.103-1

-- no debconf information