Goals for next Xfce releases

[Jani Monoses]

Andre Puschmann wrote:
> hey guys,
> 
> my idea (or the conclusion of the mentioned thread) was to write
> something similar (but more light-weight IMO) to gnome-power-manager
> (gpm) that handles things like battery monitoring and non-active
> desktops and thus allows shutting down the system on low bat and so on.

A better idea is to try getting g-p-m lighter and only consider an 
alternative if upstream opposes that.
There's a lot of work that went into g-p-m, if you want something as 
featureful  you'll need to duplicate much of it; if not the current 
mostly broken battery-applet should suffice

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399818

Jani