GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 97664
proposal for inclusion: netspeed and led_applet
Last modified: 2005-10-26 18:38:46 UTC
I am the author of 2 gnome2 applets, netspeed_applet and led_applet (http://mfcn.ilo.de/netspeed_applet/ and http://mfcn.ilo.de/led_applet). Mainly for making life easier for me and translators, I intended to host these in gnome cvs and applied for an cvs account. Here is the answer I got from Greg Leblanc (aka cvsmaster@gnome.org): "I'd suggest contacting the gnome-applets maintainers about getting your applets into the gnome-applets CVS module. If not, they can probably go into their own modules in CVS. Let us know what the gnome-applets maintainers say (or have them mail us). Thanks, Greg" That's what I'm doing now. I hope bugzilla isn't the absolutly wrong way to do so... Jörgen
My ~/garnome/lib/pkgconfig/gtk+-2.0.pc says: gtk_binary_version=2.0.0 Version: 2.0.6 Jörgen
oops :-( wrong bug report, sorry! is it possible to delete this?
The led-applet shouldn't go into gnome-applets. I think you should consider improving the network portion of the system monitor applet(multiload) instead of providing a seperate applet for network monitoring
hmm, what exactly do you understand under "improving"? How many changes would be possible?
Any number of changes are possible I think. What I also think is that bugzilla isn't the right place for a discussion about whether an applet goes into gnome-applets or not. :-) Did you get your account and so on?
Yepp I have. I haven't put the applets into cvs (yet), because I had heared from several sides that its not that appreciated if gnome cvs has lots of applet "flying around" in their own modules.
Should this bug be open?
From my side, I have nothing against closing it...
no netspeed is hosted on cvs.gnome.org, why not moving it to gnome-applets ? netspeed is a great applet and recent changes have made it more portable and more usable (the new icons are very nice). There no redundancy between multiload and netspeed. multiload displays network history (network activity) where netspeed displays instant speed. As most of netspeed users, i don't run multiload->netload because netspeed shows me what i really want to know.
There is talk of creating a gnome-applets-extras, perhaps it will have a home there.
where ? why netspeed would not be in gnome-applets ?
gnome-applets is quite a big package already. We're looking at rearranging the source package location of applets, taking them from panel to -applets and moving ones that are not really core applets into -applets-extras. The idea is to offer people what they need, and then let them get more if they want it.
i've using netsped for a while and i guess is the more functional applet for the network, i really don't like gnome-netstatus because it doesn't show a good information only blinking icons, so i think netspeed have to be on the gnome-applets package. Is only a opinion for a user.
Would it make sense to merge LED applet to the keyboard indicator? It looks like it belongs there... And it would not be that difficult as well.
What does the LED applet do?
It displays keyboard status : it's useful on laptop that don't have keyboard leds.
it's also very usefull for wireless keyboards, they don't have leds most of the time (to not consume to much battery)
ping ?
It is worth noting that most wireless keyboards have the LEDs on the base station. Consistent with Kevin's original decision. I do not want to move these into the base package at this time.
netspeed is not led_applet
In concordance with my new policy of getting gnome-applets leaner. I do not want to add this applet. Please stop reopening this bug. Too many applets have ended up abandoned, even by the best intentioned authors, and left for the G-A maintainers to continue to support. A number of these applets have been removed as there are better third party replacements. The question is if the functionality is critical inside the GNOME core or if it is simply enough to have it built on our platform. Inclusion into Desktop should not be a sign of any particular standard or quality, but simply that it is a critical piece of software that a desktop should not be without. A quick litmus test is that my mother does not know what a MB is, so should not be subjected to such quantative information. She does know what a capacity is, which is where the graphs are more accessible to a wider number of users. There is nothing to stop people developing and shipping a netspeed applet. However, I do not feel that it belongs inside G-A.
I didn't want to bug you, i just wanted a clear answer. Thanks.
"It is worth noting that most wireless keyboards have the LEDs on the base station." Davyd: I'm not reopening the bug, but let me disagree :-) It's not true. And you don't always see the base station. I think the LED applet would be really useful for a lot of people. (I agree that netspeed shouldn't be included, though: it's nice, but a bit too 'poweruser' ;-)).
LED status could be a useful feature. It would be nice to integrate it with the keyboard preferences. This comes back to my requirements for different types of applets.