Autostarting unwanted gnome applets

[Eelko Berkenpies]

On Wednesday 21 January 2009 14:26:10 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 :( )
> >
> > -- Rex
>
> 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?
>
> Martin Kho

I wouldn't know how it's set up by default but at least I don't have 
kpackagekit nor PackageKit installed. I use Yum for package management. So I 
guess the answer is; yes, such a situation is possible. :)

-- 
Eelko Berkenpies
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