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indicator-powersave with GNOME on F26 #4

Open cjustin88 opened 7 years ago

cjustin88 commented 7 years ago

I'm looking for an easy way to toggle between CPU power-saving settings in GNOME with Fedora 26. I am not using Pantheon. Is it possible to install indicator-powersave in my setup? If so, how would I do it?

Thanks!

quequotion commented 7 years ago

Indicator-powersave is a partial rewrite of indicator-cpufreq, which is a "status notification indicator" of the Ayatana variety, and does not depend on Pantheon. It's mostly in pantheon-bzr-qq for my own convenience (I keep most of my DE related packages here).

For Pantheon, a package called "wingpanel-indicator-ayatana" provides compatibilty for this type of indicator; for Gnome-Shell, it appears you will need an extension called "KStatusNotifierItem/AppIndicator Support".

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/03/use-indicator-applets-gnome-shell

It's a real shame that Gnome and Ubuntu's (mostly political) disagreement about the implementation of KDE's indicators was allowed to so thoroughly undermine the possiblity of establishing a cross-desktop standard and force other desktop envorionments to have to develop their own, mutually incompatible, implentations from scratch.

Let me know how this goes for you!

EDIT: Indicator-powersave has not as-yet been packaged except for Archlinux. If you have experience packaging for Fedora, your assistance would be much appreciated. I did make an attempt at a deb release once, but I find that packaging for Debian is several orders of magnitude more difficult than actually writing a program; perhaps RPM is not so frustrating?