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]

On 01/06/2012 10:26 AM, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Please be aware, that in g-p-m 3.2, most of its functionality has been
> moved into a gnome-session plugin, i.e. g-p-m is not really useful
> outside a gnome session anymore.

Thanks for the heads-up on this.  If this is the case, oerhaps g-p-m
should detect if no gnome-session is running and report itself as
disabled somehow?

There seems to be a common thread of poor or absent error reporting (not
even cryptic guru meditations to stderr) in the pieces of gnome 3 that
i've tried :(  I understand not wanting to overwhelm the user with
administrivia, but surely there's a better balance to be struck between
reams of gobbledy-gook and utter silence.

Or is there actually good error logging, and i'm  just not looking in
the right place?

Thanks again for all your work on GNOME in Debian, and for your prompt
response here.

Regards,

	--dkg

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