sensors applet should have appindicator support

[Jamie Strandboge]

Binary package hint: unity

The sensors applet is an sensors tool provided by Gnome. In the Ubuntu Classic Desktop it is a panel applet. It cannot be launched standalone in Unity. This can be a useful application for non-geeks to see if their system is running too hot that would be really cool to have ported to appindicators.

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

Jamie, if you've got some spare cycles to take this on, I would suggest
you chat with Conor who is working on something related that I hope
you'll like.

Mark

[Xavier Guillot (valeryan-24)]

Hello,

Gnome Sensors Applet is THE only important thing I'm really missing in Ubuntu Natty with Unity, it was perfect for having information displayed on the system in a non-invasive way.

Today there is a system monitor indicator : http://www.webupd8.org/2011/03/system-monitor-indicator-puts-cpu-and.html

But it's with text, not graphics, and there are not processor + hard-drives temperatures that Gnome Sensors Applet was also showing thanks to Hddtemp.

So I hope you'll have time to work on it :)

[Alex Murray (alexmurray)]

@Mark - is there already a solution being worked on for this? I was going to try and write a new application 'indicator-sensors' to provide this kind of functionality but I'd rather not duplicate effort if not needed, so if there is anything already happening that I can contribute to please let me know. Otherwise I'm planning to re-write sensors-applet to instead support libappindicator (this will also help me to clean up sensors-applet which has suffered a bit from bit-rot over the years...)

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

On 03/04/11 08:17, Alex Murray wrote:
> @Mark - is there already a solution being worked on for this? I was
> going to try and write a new application 'indicator-sensors' to provide
> this kind of functionality but I'd rather not duplicate effort if not
> needed, so if there is anything already happening that I can contribute
> to please let me know. Otherwise I'm planning to re-write sensors-applet
> to instead support libappindicator (this will also help me to clean up
> sensors-applet which has suffered a bit from bit-rot over the years...)

We have a design sketch (i.e. very lightweight concept) and would be
happy to discuss that with you. Since the ideas are not something we can
commit to (if we do that and people write a ton of code and then we
change our mind we get held accountable :-)) I'd be happy to bounce them
off you privately. Ping me on IRC (sabdfl on irc.freenode.net) for more.

Mark

[Alex Murray (alexmurray)]

Thanks Mark - for the moment I am going to focus on implementing something relatively clean using the existing APIs - if anyone playing at home wants to follow along I'm pushing code to: http://github.com/alexmurray/indicator-sensors - although it is very much incomplete at the moment - once I have something more concrete will post back here.

[Alex Murray (alexmurray)]

I've written a new implementation of sensors-applet but with the app-indicator api in mind, you can find it at http://launchpad.net/indicator-sensors.

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

indicator-sensors is available now (but needs to be packaged in Ubuntu).