I whipped up a little python script called gimgur that handles PNG, GIF, and JPEG files by uploading them to imgur.com and giving your a dialog with the URL, quick copy, and a button for opening it in the browser for deletion. Making the script only took a few hours, but packaging has taken longer, and while my long-term plan is to get it into a Launchpad PPA, for now here is a package for amd64 made using checkinstall:

gimgur amd64 Package (8 Kb)

Update:

This got picked up in an OMG! Ubuntu! article, so big thanks to them and everyone interested. Feedback is much appreciated, and anyone who wants to help please see the project page to ask a question, file a bug, or join the “team”.

Pidgin had this same problem, and they solved it by offering both indicator applet support and notification area support. After talking with the GNOME folks, and reading this bug report, it’s probably not going to get done. Because of the way Rhythmbox is developed, you must install a new package to get the old behavior back. I just made a PPA with the --enable-appindicator=no flag.

Easiest way to install is just sudo add-apt-repository lp:kris-santiance/oldrb and then grab the “update” from the update manager.

This is a misleading name because it does more than just monitor the scaling, it allows you to change it easily. Most people disregard these settings because many settings like this don’t make a huge difference in other applications. There is one place it makes a big difference, which is the mother of all CPU users: Web Flash-based video. This thing basically physically abuses your processor. You can use flash little performance tests to get an idea of how CPU scaling affects your hardware.

In the same way, I find that actually making use of the Powersave and other options when on battery. On desktop systems where power consumption isn’t an issue, this setting will always be set at Performance. While Ondemand is rather good for typical use, some users find that it degrades response-time for things like Compiz.

Also remember that IOWait is typically the bottleneck for a lot of applications. I chose to use Flash as an example because it does a poor job of accomplishing it’s job and as a result requires a magnitude of additional computational power. You can easily compare the amount of processor usage to anything like VLC, Totem, or Mplayer and they will be a fraction of the usage.

Doing this in a normal terminal isn’t advised, because if that shell is terminated it would also end the panel process. However, if you can get around that by using nohup gnome-panel, or using the bash keyword disown after having ran the process in that terminal.