Wanted: some systray applications
There are a few things that I'd like to have in my fd.o-compatible system tray, but that do not seem to exist at this time (either that, or I haven't been looking too carefully):
- An application to manage my Kerberos tickets. It should display how
much time I have left before the tickets expire, allow me to renew them
with a click on a button, and (optionnally) pop up a window when the
tickets are about to expire.
The ability to log in to kerberos and/or to change my password is nice, but not required (I have PAM set up to do that). - An application that will show me how much battery power I have left, in a PMU-specific way. I'm perfectly aware of the fact that there are a number of applications that can query the battery state on my powerbook by using the PMU driver's APM emulation, but I want to have the extra data that the PMU driver knows about (such as the amount of power I'm burning); that won't be available if I use the APM emulation. Additionally, I hate udev with a vengeance, so it must not use that (or hal, which depends on udev)
Anyone know of such a thing?
Agreed, some GNOME integration for maintaining Kerberos tickets would be very nice. Ideally, it should imho be integrated into gnome-keyring.
Have you seen krb5-auth-dialog? It'll popup a dialog when your credentials expire to renew them. It's at least better than nothing.
It's been packaged in Ubuntu and will probably also be uploaded to Debian.
I have written something that has the beginnings of what you're looking for. We use it on our Debian+KDE systems at The MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab. It definitely doesn't have all the features you want. The most notably missing feature is the ability to prompt for a password upon ticket expiration. But check it out: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kredentials/. Patches are always welcome!
Kredentials is not in Debian, but I believe I have opened an ITP; I just haven't uploaded it.
It's also worth noting that, while written for KDE, kredentials works fine in GNOME's panel as well.
noah
I want to take advantage of new hardware without using the new software written to support it and other kinds of new hardware. Can you help?
Love, Wouter
No, that's not what I wrote.
I want to know all the information that PMU gives me. This includes "current wattage the laptop is using" and more interesting things which ACPI and APM have never even heard of.
The fact that udev is an utter piece of crap, full of race conditions and whatnot, is also a very good reason why I don't want to use it. But even if it wasn't, having something that requires hal wouldn't help, in light of the above paragraph.
As far as I know, hal uses a pluggable "battery information source". On my (ACPI, I admit) laptop, it shows all the shiny details: current voltage, design voltage, current (dis)charge rate, etc.
And udev is full of race conditions? Please file bugs! I'm sure the upstream developers want to fix them.
Hah. Experience proves that this is not the case.
There is "ticket-applet" for gnome: http://www.andrewchatham.com/ticket_applet/ I've ported it to Shishi: http://josefsson.org/shishi/#screenshot