Re: end-user whines about 2.10

[Ryan McDougall <NQG24419 nifty com>]

On Wed, 2005-30-03 at 10:16 +0200, DmD (Spider) Ljungmark wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 10:39 +0900, Ryan McDougall wrote:
> > 
> > This applet was written by Sun for JDS and considered better than the
> > the previous one. I'm not sure why the signal strength and silly
> > monitors aren't good enough, but you are welcome to file a bug report
> > and/or submit a patch. 
> > 
> 
> Oh.  Quite simple reason really. 
> They blink.
> In an utterly obnoxious way in a desktop where the -only- thing that by
> default changes state unless it -really- wants my attention is the
> cursor for the mouse, that thing -blinks-.
> 
> //Spider

How would you prefer it to tell you its transmitting if it doesn't
change state? In fact everything that I can think of conveys information
by changing state. 

If you don't want it to convey information then why do you want it on
your panel? Personally I have the panel that it is on on auto-hide so it
only blinks at me when I want it to.

Perhaps what your looking for is a notification applet that tells you
only when the link goes down? I think that would be a cool thing to
write if you were so interested. If all you want is signal strength,
both redhat and novell have their own notification applets.

Cheers,
Ryan