[gnome-flashback] Could somebody port netspeed to use gsettings ?

[shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 gmail com>]

Hi all,
It seems netspeed will not work anymore soon (as and when GNOME 3.16
starts coming in Debian/Jessie+1 or even before that) due to finding
of deprecated functionality found in netspeed. Please see
https://bugs.debian.org/772619 . I use netspeed exclusively with
gnome-flashback and do want to help out as and when new versions of
gnome components come in experimental. Because of the above issue, I
cannot upgrade gnome-applets as well as gnome-panel as gnome-applets
is dependant on netspeed and I don't want to remove/purge netspeed.

Upstream is dead as can be seen via
https://git.gnome.org/browse/netspeed/ . The only new commit was a
language translation which happened this year, apart from that there
seems to be nothing  happening. I also asked Vicent Vutz, the primary
committer on the package but haven't heard from him.

I don't want to use the ability to use netspeed as it's a small
applet, simply works and doesn't use much computing resources unlike
other alternatives.

Looking forward to hear something positive.
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