I think the plugin can serve a useful purpose if we can get an idea of connection speeds, such as is done by conky (which is not a plugin) or to a small extent the xfce plugin. Right now, there is hardly any meaningful indication. So I would like to second Rune's suggestion.
--- On Sat, 2/18/12, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Lxde-list] lxpanel: netstat plugin fixes and discussion > To: "LXDE list" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, February 18, 2012, 12:12 PM > Hello, > > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:57:12PM +0800, PCMan wrote: > > Now network manager is already very mature and quite > usable. > > Besides, its gnome-applet, despite the name gnome, > mostly use gtk+ only. > > So I see no reason to maintain a duplicate. > > A general thought, > > if the plugin provides a visual feedback of the network > status, it > can be useful even for people not running Network Manager > (like > myself). Note that the Network Manager is not universally > the best > (or suitable) tool, while a visual feedback is nice to > have. > > (guessing that the Network Manager's gnome-applet is not > usable alone, > or is it?) > > Regards, > Rune > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity > Planning > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud > computing > also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a > service. > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ > _______________________________________________ > Lxde-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
