Does not show option in its preferences

[Eugenia Loli-Queru]

Binary package hint: gnome-cpufreq-applet

According to gnome-cpufreq-applet's HELP file, there is an option on its preferences that let's you do the following:

Show menu
            This option allows you to choose how much information is shown in
            the frequency selector dropdown (see Section ― Frequency
            and Governor Selector). You can select to
            display Frequencies, Governors or both Frequencies and Governors.

However, this menu does NOT show up in my preferences. Please note that the right cpu_freq modules are all loaded fine and the applet works perfectly regarding reporting the amount of Mhz used each time by my CoreDuo 1.66 GHz. The only bug is that the "show menu" widgets don't show up in its pref panel, resulting in not letting me select the cpu frequency i want each time.

[Eugenia Loli-Queru (eloli)]

Ok, here is what the gnome developer told me:

"This option has been removed from the pref dialog, and it seems that documentation has not been updated. The selector menu layout has been reworked so that such an configuration option is no longer needed. In the other hand, if you can't see the selector menu by clicking on the applet, you need to set the SUID bit for the cpufreq-selector file.
Typically:
# chmod 4755 /usr/bin/cpufreq-selector
Automatically the selector menu will appear by clicking again on the applet. You don't need to reboot the applet."

So, please either by default chmod the cpufreq applet, or add it to the keyring. Because the way it is now, it is a useless applet taking space, because it does not let you change CPU frequencies or tell your laptop to go to powersave mode or not. Only root would be able to do that, and there is no root user on ubuntu.

[Eugenia Loli-Queru (eloli)]

Hello? are you going to do anything about it or what? You are leaving users in the cold with this problem, because not even the HELP file is updated to at least tell them to suid the file manually.