On 12/02/2011 08:48 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > > In Gnome 2 I had a usable panel widget that showed my sensors CPU > temperature, a small weather widget, and a power management widget > that actually showed the watt-hour capacity of my laptop battery, so I > can observe it degradation, with every passing month. > > Gnome 3 came without any kind of a sensors CPU widget. There's one > now, which does not work. I can see why it's broken, it's reading off > an internal hardcoded list of /sys paths, and my kernel creates /sys > nodes for its eight CPU core thermal sensors that the widget doesn't > know anything about, so it just sits there, and tells me I'm running > at 0 degrees Celsius. There's still no weather panel wiget, to my > knowledge. At one point I have a dim recollection that > "gnome-power-manager-extras" existed, that added a comparable > watt-hour popup, but right now nothing like it exists, and the icon > just sits there with a single %-age label. > > And I won't even get started on the clusterfracas with the desktop > icons, and the evolution of the "have file-manager handle the desktop" > option in tweaktools.
BTW, I brought up these issues when I updated my laptop to F15, and it was suggested I go tell it to the Gnome usability list. http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability -Scott -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
