Some points/issues to discuss about the desktop

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Jeff Waugh wrote:

>>>* Use laptop-detect to choose between two default panel profiles, one of
>>>which has battery+wifi. This might be the best shortcut for Warty.
>>>      
>>>
>>Many laptops don't have wifi.
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>>
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>Sure, but right now, this is a simple change which can limit the damage and
>go some way towards delivering what you originally asked for.
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I'm happy with the "disabled mode" fallback for the moment, it's the 
best option until we have a smarter way of sculpting the default desktop 
during install.

In some future release, we should analyse the system and create a 
default desktop that reflects what we think the system is capable of 
(wifi, battery, sound etc).

>They don't display error dialogues, they just display a 'disabled' mode. The
>wifi applet shows the "not available" icon (which is being changed), the
>battery applet shows an exclamation mark and an empty battery graph (which
>would require code and art to change significantly). 
>
We'll make that exclamation mark icon a "disabled grey". The applet is 
easy enough to remove.

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