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gnome-applets package

2 panel applets showing battery status on upgrades

Bug #32348 reported by Ondřej Nový
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gnome-applets (Ubuntu)
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

If i boot up live CD Dapper F4 I have 2 applets on gnome-panel showing battery or charging status. Power Manager & Battery Charge Monitor
I think that Power Manager is newer and Battery Charge Monitor shouldn't be there.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. Confirming as to fix for dapper. The panel layout is user configuration so it doesn't make it easy to change on upgrade. We have to decide which one to use by default on new installation

Changed in gnome-applets:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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BenWoosley (ben-woosley) wrote :

This bug is present in Flight 5. Power Manager is set to display only when the power is unplugged and the battery monitor is always active. I also prefer that only power manager be displayed.

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gusaweb (gusaweb) wrote :

I have upgraded from Breezy to Dapper and I have the same problem.

I would prefer battery charge monitor because it shows messages when the battery status changes.

The only problem is it disappears from the panel when battery is full, whereas the other remains.

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Ondřej Nový (onovy) wrote :

confirming that this bug is STILL in Flight 6

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

We have decided to use g-p-m to display this information for Dapper. Is there anything which can be done about the upgrade issue?

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Ondřej Nový (onovy) wrote :

good, g-p-m is good choice
i think, it's impossible to fix user config during upgrade, but just change default behaviour. we can't/shouldn't change user (or all computer users) configuration

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

This upload fixes the new installation issue:

 gnome-panel (2.14.1-0ubuntu4) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/gnome-panel-data.postinst,
     debian/panel-default-setup-laptop.entries, debian/rules:
     - drop the laptop profile, it was to use battstat which is not required now (Ubuntu: #32348)

There is still the upgrade issue. We could mark the battstat applet deprecated to gnome-applets so it would be dropped automagically on upgrade ... but are some people still likely to want to use it?

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Ondřej Nový (onovy) wrote :

i think that is good idea to mark it as deprecated. it's not good to support both applets, but only newest. there is no reason to use the oldest one

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

This should be re-considered for Edgy+1 - we should discuss it beforehand.

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Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig) wrote :

[Hardy] I seem to have something similar on Hardy; at a clean boot I have one icon but after a hibernate I *sometimes* pick up two; once it decides to do that it will stay like that until a clean reboot.

This is an upgrade from Gutsy (that didn't do it) on a Tosh Eqium A100-306 laptop running 64bit.

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in gnome-applets:
milestone: ubuntu-6.06 → none
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

closing the bug as deprecated, the battery applet has not been installed for years and there will be no extra code for it now

Changed in gnome-applets (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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