Bug 227403 - No obvious way to get rid of resapplet
Summary: No obvious way to get rid of resapplet
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE 11.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: GNOME (show other bugs)
Version: Alpha 2
Hardware: Other openSUSE 11.0
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Reported: 2006-12-09 17:58 UTC by Jesse Michael
Modified: 2008-11-29 23:20 UTC (History)
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Description Jesse Michael 2006-12-09 17:58:15 UTC 
No matter how many times I select "Remove from Panel" for resapplet and save my gnome session, it comes back every time I have to relogin.
Comment 1 Dan Winship 2006-12-11 16:51:40 UTC 
you have to open the "Sessions" control panel, click on the third notebook tab, click on "resapplet", and then click "Disable".

No, there isn't any way you could possibly have figured that out.
Comment 2 Jesse Michael 2006-12-12 19:13:11 UTC 
Heh, thanks for the smarmy response, but I'd tried selecting "Delete", not "Disable", which I'd assumed would be the more permanent removal.

Having to open up the Sessions control panel is already the less intuitive approach, but when you need to avoid picking the obvious choice to get it to actually work, that's not exactly user-friendly.
Comment 3 Dan Winship 2006-12-12 19:41:41 UTC 
Er, that wasn't supposed to be smarmy. I didn't mean "you suck (for not looking harder)", I meant "we suck (for not making it easier)" :-)
Comment 4 Jesse Michael 2006-12-13 01:57:53 UTC 
Sorry, I was a little grumpy this morning and misinterpreted that last sentence as sarcasm.  Oops.  :)
Comment 5 JP Rosevear 2007-02-14 20:16:10 UTC 
Should get covered with new session foo.
Comment 7 Mark Gordon 2007-11-14 20:04:30 UTC 
In 10.3, Startup Programs is the first tab in Sessions, though one might argue that this is still suboptimal, as a user would reasonably expect "Remove from Panel" to be permanent, as it is with actual applets.

I think this needs to be addressed from within resapplet.  resapplet could write an appropriate ~/.config/autostart/resapplet.desktop (i.e. with X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false) when "Remove from Panel" is selected, and if it's started manually, it could remove that file.

Moving to openSUSE 11.0 for possible consideration.
Comment 8 Federico Mena Quintero 2008-04-18 16:32:20 UTC 
I'm marking this as blocking the tracker bug for multiscreen issues.  The idea is to kill resapplet and replace it with the new functionality in the gnome-display-properties capplet for the control center.
Comment 9 Federico Mena Quintero 2008-11-29 23:20:44 UTC 
Resapplet no longer exists in openSUSE 11.1.  We now have a tray icon managed by the Display section in the GNOME control center, and it has a checkbox that lets you show/hide the tray icon.  Marking as fixed.