Re: GNOME 2.26 module inclusion discussion heats up

["Patryk Zawadzki" <patrys pld-linux org>]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 10:55 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org> wrote:
>> > yeah, I agree with you, I think both should be the same (an applet or an
>> > icon), so since we already have the applet, I guess it would make sense
>> > to add code to the applet to hide itself and start the notification icon
>> > if PA is running, or something like that
>> But this is not a runtime decision. Either your distro is using
>> pulseaudio (and it should), then you always want the new icon,
>> or it isn't, and then you need something else. If you are using
>> pulseaudio, you don't want to have an invisible mixer applet on your
>> panel, eating resources and possibly causing other unwanted side
>> effects.
> you're right about the resources taken by the hidden applet, but as you
> see, Debian, openSUSE and Mandriva need ways to offer users a fallback,
> so we really need it. If there's a better solution than hiding the
> applet, let's use that, but can't think of a better (and quicker) way
> right now

Wouldn't it be easier to convert the old applet to also use a tray
icon? This way no useless applet needs to stay in the memory (due to
the fact applets have no programmatical way to add or remove
themselves at run time).

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Patryk Zawadzki