Cool new applets…

Now that gnome-power-manager can do trivial applets, I'm open to suggestions to what would be sane to expose to a power user as additional “manually add” features.
Ideas I'm playing with at the moment include:

  • Hotspot applet : click the icon and the computer won't auto-suspend or blank the screen until it is clicked again. Useful for proprietary programs that don't support the Inhibit() interface like matlab or vmware.
  • CPU frequency scaling applet : i.e. a re-implementation of the existing cpufreq-applet but using g-p-m to do the policy and HAL to do the heavy lifting. Should be tiny in comparison to the old applet (and not be setuid), and would work well with existing g-p-m policy.
  • Logout, suspend, hibernate and shutdown icons (power-applet) : i.e. a set of icons that provide one click access to these functions (and that hide individual icons if you have no support or not enough permissions). i.e. a distro would add this applet, and it would show the right stuff on the right computers.

Feel free to suggest other “cool applets”, or just tell me I'm insane. Thanks.

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Richard has over 10 years of experience developing open source software. He is the maintainer of GNOME Software, PackageKit, GNOME Packagekit, GNOME Power Manager, GNOME Color Manager, colord, and UPower and also contributes to many other projects and opensource standards. Richard has three main areas of interest on the free desktop, color management, package management, and power management. Richard graduated a few years ago from the University of Surrey with a Masters in Electronics Engineering. He now works for Red Hat in the desktop group, and also manages a company selling open source calibration equipment. Richard's outside interests include taking photos and eating good food.

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