Bug#580429: Please disable hal support / battstat applet

[Joachim Breitner]

Dear Josselin,

 Am Freitag, den 02.07.2010, 10:07 +0200 schrieb 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.

just for reference, this seems to be a related upstream bug:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607254

You could just enable the ACPI code and see if users complain.

Greetings,
Joachim

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