Re: Removal of wireless-applets from gnome-applets?

[Aaron Weber <aweber novell com>]

Have you tried netapplet (and netdaemon?)

a.


On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 18:01 -0500, Pat Suwalski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As of recent releases of gnome-applets, the wireless applet has been 
> removed.
>
> I very much used and liked the wireless-applet and I'm curious if 
> there's some sort of module removal policy with these things. For 
> example, does an applet need to cover all the functionality of an old 
> applet before getting removed? If there were an applet that behaved 
> pretty much the same way as the old one, I would be inclined to switch 
> to it.
>
> However, the immediate replacement, netstatus, does not do everything as 
> well as the w-a. For example, it does not seem to be able to show my 
> signal strength as a percentage, does not tell me how strong my signal 
> is via a colour cue, and has very annoying (distracting) flashing 
> monitors consuming valuable applet space. It seems to take away 
> everything that made wireless-applet better than all the others.
>
> The main reason I was given for this change is that wireless-applet's 
> code is messy. To me, the copy in CVS looks short and simple. I also 
> cannot imagine it being a big deal to maintain.
>
> So, is there any reason why it should be removed before a proper 
> replacement is available? I cannot see netstatus gaining all this 
> missing functionality within the timeframe of the next release. I would 
> love to see w-a in Gnome 2.10.
>
> --Pat
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