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[Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello and thank you for this new applet!

As you said, it's easier and a more user-friendly solution to just enable an applet than downloading an external script and launching it at startup.

But the only goal of this applet is to provide a workaround to fix a bug in the Nvidia drivers and this is why we never add this solution in an applet... (Indeed it's better to fix the bug than having a lot of workarounds which are not so easy to maintain)

On the other hand, I agree with you: this bug is known and it seems Nvidia devs will not fix it soon. We have to find a solution!
Why not an even easier solution for the end user? Here we'll have a new plugin but the user will have to enable it (and we can't enable it by default, it has "a cost", it's just a workaround for a minority of users). Why not detecting the video drivers and then automatically reload the icons (or just the dynamic ones) if there is a change? We'll have to do that in the Core, a bit like the solution that we used before for the bug with the Intel 4000HD video card.

**@fabounet**: what do you think about that? It will not add any new dependences, just connect to a new signal only if proprietary NVidia drivers are used.
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