On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 05:03:19PM +0800, PCMan wrote:
> A new netstatus applet is developed for lxpanel2 based on libgtop.
> To some extent this can provide the required information, in a more
> portable way.

It seems, for the gtk2 version it might make sense to merge the
'netstat' and 'netstatus' plugins into a single monitor. I really like
the tooltip and icon of 'netstat'.

However, with lxpanel2 coming up, I probably won't do that.

> Lxpanel2 is now in my hard disk and will be pushed to online git repo
> recently.

Looking forward to it!


Cheers,

Henry

> 
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Globe Trotter <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > 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:
> > > 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
> > >

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