Re: GNOME2.3: Modemlights applet

[Xan Lopez <xan masilla org>]

My idea is that, as ppp on/off is badly broken and it's not trivially
fixable, drop that functionality and substitute modelights with netspeed
applet. IMHO is better to simply not offer some functionality instead of
providing a completely broken implementation of it.
Of course is someone fixes modemlights the situation would be different,
although I'd still propose netspeed + some kind of dialup, as I find it
much nicer in general :)

El s?, 10-05-2003 a las 15:19, Mike Newman escribió:
> On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 14:02, Xan Lopez wrote:
> > What about changing the modemlights applet for the netspeed applet
> > (http://mfcn.ilo.de/netspeed_applet/)?
> > I've been happily using it for months now, it's stable, cute,
> > minimalistic, etc...
> 
> That would be a regression in the sense that netspeed_applet doesn't
> duplicate the functionality of modemlights. As well as displaying the
> in/out traffic on a connection, modemlights can at the click of a button
> connect/disconnect ppp.
> 
> I can't see how the current modemlights applet can 'just work' on all
> distributions without some rather obscure setting-up by the user. Not
> even sure ./configure magic could help - the name of the lockfile
> depends which serial port the modem is using, etc.
> 
> Perhaps the best improvement would be a carefully designed druid to set
> up the applet/ppp - perhaps it should even understand the .ini files for
> setting up DNS that ISPs sometimes provide?
> 
> Mike
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