xfce4-battery-plugin not active in laptop mode

[Fabián Rodríguez]

Using Xubuntu Dapper beta.

When using a laptop, xfce4-battery-plugin is not loaded and present in the XFCE4 panel by default.

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

After yesterday's big XFCE update, I noticed the gnome power manager is now present in my panel. I am not sure what this means in terms of resource usage and consistency in applets usage.

[Jani Monoses (jani)]

that's unintentional as it depends on the gnome libs unfortunately.
it may be because of abiword-plugins which temporarily depends on gnome and that brought it in?
either way it will get fixed. Try removing gnome-power-manager and see what in xubuntu-desktop will go along with it and we'll know how it got installed.

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

Here's what I get trying to remove it:

magicfab@edgar:~$ sudo apt-get remove gnome-power-manager
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
  gnome-power-manager ubuntu-desktop
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 1692kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.

I am just puzzled as to how a Gnome applet can show up in an XFCE planel, as there is supposed to be a new XFCE panel applet that lets Gnome applets co-exist... and I don' t have it !

[Jani Monoses (jani)]

1) battery plugin by default in the panel: will not happen, we would need to
modify the panel to detect if it's a laptop and it's too late to do that for dapper. Laptop users will have to add it manually.
2)gnome-power-manager installed: no longer happens since abiword does not bring in gnome bits anymore
3)g-p-m appearing in the panel: it is a systray app which uses a cross-desktop API, so it shows up in any panel implementing it. It is not a panel plugin as the launchers or the menu or the taskbar are, that's why it is show in xfce too, it's not gnome panel specific

closing this bug