some quick notes on xfce4-power-manager 0.6.4

[Mike Massonnet]

Le Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:59:43 +0100,
Ali Abdallah <aliov at xfce.org> a écrit :

> Auke Kok wrote:
> >
> >
> > some notes about xfce4-power-manager -0.6.4:
> >
> > - double clicking the systray icon should call the preferences
> > window
> This is easy to add.

The GtkStatusIcon doesn't have a signal to do this easily
(double-click), so this is out of scope as a standard use of a
notification icon, instead choose by convention the best action for a
click. Most apps use this to show/hide the main interface. You could
just show the preferences dialog, which is the best convention imho.
For instance, wicd does this. Mail-notification lets you choose which
action to do like "check up mails", "open mail client" or "show
preferencse dialog".

Cheers
Mike

> > - there's no 'quit/exit' button in the systray context menu.
> > Allthough not often used, there should be a way to terminate the
> > program.
> >
> You can terminate the program by typing in the terminal 
> xfce4-power-manager -q, this will send the DBus quit message to the 
> running xfce power manager, personally i don't see a benefit from
> adding such option ni the context menu.
> 
> > Cheers,
> >
> Auke
> 
> Cheers,
> Ali.