Trimming down gnome-applets (and removing HAL dependency)

[Bryan Quigley]

I agree on those two and have two more to add.  (If these are already
gone/changed in karmic, sorry)
Neither for full removal but they just shouldn't be ran per user at startup:
Jockey - purpose is *notification* of hardware changes.
Update manager - purpose is *notification* of updates available

Thoughts?

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Chris Coulson <chrisccoulson at ubuntu.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As you're all aware, the mixer-applet was recently disabled in Karmic.
> This got me thinking about whether we need all the other applets we
> currently have on the default install, and I wondered whether there were
> any others that could be disabled too.
>
> I just wanted to know what everyone else thought. The ones that are
> currently installed which I think could probably be disabled are:
>
> *** battstatus ***
>
> This currently is able to use either a HAL backend or the
> legacy /proc/acpi interface for obtaining battery information. This has
> previously been (and might still be) a source of bugs when the legacy
> interface presents inconsistent information compared to what
> gnome-power-manager says (eg, battstatus saying laptop is on AC where
> g-p-m says it is on battery). AFAIK, the legacy /proc/acpi interface has
> been deprecated for some time, and we don't really want the HAL backend
> either. I'm not sure what benefit this adds in addition to the
> gnome-power-manager status icon, but I think it is a good candidate for
> removal. It is also the only applet in gnome-applets which depends on
> HAL. Fedora don't ship this applet currently.
>
> *** modemlights ***
>
> This has a dependency on network-admin from gnome-system-tools which we
> don't even install by default anymore, so is crippled on the default
> install anyway. To be functional, users will need to manually download
> gnome-network-admin, so I'm not sure if we'd lose anything by removing
> this applet.
>
> Do people have any objections to removing these applets, or know if any
> users are still using them? Perhaps you can think of some other applets
> that could also be disabled? Is there any use-case I have missed which
> would prohibit the removal of these 2 applets?
>
> Regards
> Chris
>
>
>
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