GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 373890
font size and update interval are too power user
Last modified: 2011-01-07 11:53:49 UTC
The font size and update interval options located in the netspeed preferences are too power users for being in the GUI they may be accessed only by the gconf interface.
hmm, netspeed is a poweruser tool. maybe the settings are not too usefull and could be removed and set to sane defaults. however i kind of disagree with the gconf interface, since it is totally horrible for applets (have to find the right UID in /apps/panel/applets/ and hen kill the applet because the api does signal changes? - not so nice imho)
well yeah, but my concern was about the "too much", i mean who really uses that options, i don't really know anyone who likes to have the desktop with font 9 and the applets with font 4. About the gconf thing, yeah it's really awful for applets ... ok i'm gonna work on having these two options with defaults instead providing a gconf interface, thanks again.
Created attachment 76563 [details] [review] patch remove the label font size and update interval options from the settings dialog. may you please take a look to it and tell me if is ok to commit, thanks.
Hmm, no wait a second. This is not ok to commit. It might surprise you, but the font setting is actually there for a reason. The default panel font is to large for netspeed IMHO... This does not mean that there has to be a font setting, we can solve this somehow differently, but I am not going with the default panel font.
I have been testing your patch now for a while. Maybe it's a good idea anyways... Go ahead and commit if you like, if people complain we can revert it anyways ;-)
Yeah no problem, I think the users are not going to complaint (i hope hehe). Ok already committed thanks again for your time. Regards.
Sorry for digging up such an old bug. I wonder whether it would be possible to export refresh_rate as an gconf option instead of using the currently hard coded value of 1000 ms. I'm using the netspeed applet for ages now and am really used to it. Now I'm trying to optimize the battery running time on my new netbook and realized that the netspeed applet eats 1-2 percent of cpu power on average. I'd like to change the refresh_rate to something along 5000 ms to reduce the load.