Martin Kho wrote: > 2009/1/21 Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu>: >> Martin Kho wrote: >>> On Wednesday 21 January 2009 08:16:42 Kevin Kofler wrote: >>>> Jeffrey D Anderson wrote: >>>>> I notice that every time I restart my desktop nm-applet and >>>>> guidance-power-manager restart. >>>> guidance-power-manager is not a GNOME applet, it's an applet from KDE >>>> extragear. But it isn't needed with 4.2 anymore, you can use the battery >>>> plasmoid, which uses PowerDevil for power management, instead. >>>> >>>> nm-applet is still needed, the NM plasmoid is not ready yet. >>>> >>>> Kevin Kofler >>>> >>> And what about gpk-update-icon? Is it needed in KDE. >> Same boat, not really, kpackagekit is the way to go. >> >> (We're still trying to come up with a way to be able to use both, ie, >> have kpackagekit disable gpk-update-icon when it is installed, but it >> doesn't work yet, and may never. boo :( ) > Now that kpackagekit exists, isn't it the Gnome maintainers team who > have to keep the gpk-update-icon out off the way, ie, by putting > "NotShowIn=KDE;" in their desktop file? I've added this line and > gpk-update-icon no longer shows up. Is there a situation where KDE is > installed and kpackagekit isn't? Right... I'd like to avoid that if at all possible, to allow the use of gpk-update-icon in kde (if kpackagekit isn't installed, esp for F-9 users where kpackagekit wasn't available at release). But, we may end up having no viable alternative other than the NotShowIn=KDE hammer. -- Rex
