Autostarting unwanted gnome applets

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed Jan 21 12:31:59 UTC 2009


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 :( )

-- Rex



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