[upgrade] Both gnome-power-manager and gnome-battery-monitor display dialogues

[Paul Sladen]

After an upgrade to dapper, both gnome-battery-monitor and gnome-power-manager will have icons in the menu bar as the top of the GNOME desktop and both will produce dialogues warning of the battery state.

This produces interesting affects like having two dialogues on the screen at once:

  http://www.paul.sladen.org/ubuntu/bugs/multi-low-battery.png

[Richard Hughes (richard-hughes)]

Ubuntu specific bug, fedora has just disabled the battstat applet.

[Daniel Silverstone (dsilvers)]

Richard: Do you happen to know exactly what fedora did? If we just remove the applet from our packages then users will get nasty scary crash-like "applet failed to start" dialogs. If we remove it from our default panel then it still exists in users panels over upgrades etc.

Did fedora do something clever, or just decide to take the flak for the failed-to-start bugs?

[Richard Hughes (richard-hughes)]

Not sure, I've only did a fresh install of FC5t2, as upgrading between FC4 and FC5 isn't officially supported. I would imagine the battstat applet would remain in the tray in this case.

[Dean Sas (dsas)]

I've done a fresh install of Dapper and I too have both applets in my notification area

[Angelo Lisco (angystardust-gmail)]

I marked this bug as a duplicate of #32348 which is partially fixed in the last upload of gnome-panel...

 gnome-panel (2.14.1-0ubuntu4) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/gnome-panel-data.postinst,
     debian/panel-default-setup-laptop.entries, debian/rules:
     - drop the laptop profile, it was to use battstat which is not required now (Ubuntu: #32348)

There is still the upgrade issue. We could mark the battstat applet deprecated to gnome-applets so it would be dropped automagically on upgrade ... but are some people still likely to want to use it?