Re: GNOME and PPP - suggestions for way forward

[Tom Gilbert <gilbertt tomgilbert freeserve co uk>]

Wooahh!

Let's not get too carried away here. The way this thread is going, the
Modem lights applet is going to get axed! See attached mail at bottom. 

I love this applet. When I first came across it I was happy to have
finally found a ppp-dialer which was what I wanted. Its tiny, minimalist,
click-on, clock-off, yet shows the important basic stats - specifically
whether I am sending or recieving, and how much...

The best thing about it is that it will run my own pppon and pppoff
scripts. These scripts can also be called via a command line and have the
power to control an Internet connection server as well as a dialup desktop
machine. I use these scripts as they are extremely flexible and powerful.

I appreciate the ease of use that apps such as Gnome-PPP bring to
connecting, but I refuse to maintain 2 sets of dialup scripts, especially
when the "easy to use" one lacks a lot of flexibility.

Now, if the PPP-dialer applet had the facility/option to run a
shell-script or two, instead of using its built-in configurations, and to
run in the panel with a tiny footprint and show basic stats.... Then you'd
be talking.

Cheers guys,

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On Sat, 29 May 1999 bratsche@dfw.net wrote:

->
->The PPP Dialer applet that comes with gnome-core has been removed for the
->next release. Does the Modem Lights applet have any uses other than
->dialing into PPP shells? I've never seen this applet.
->
->There is a new PPP dialer applet that is distributed in the gnome-network
->package, starting with version 1.0.2. It has some of the properties of the
->applet you described.
->
->Your suggestions for the statistics is appreciated also. This is something
->that is planned to be added sometime I think.
->
->Thanks,
->  Cody
->
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->On Sat, 29 May 1999, James Green wrote:
->
->> Dear all,
->> 
->> I've been playing around with the ppp and modem progs that come with
->> gnome. I want to quickly congratulate those who did gnome-ppp - it worked
->> first time, unlike other scripts and setup-tools that give failure notices
->> from those in #linuxhelp.
->> 
->> Now, it seems bizarre to have THREE (count 'em) apps/utils to perform
->> modem/ppp operations. Could we not get rid of modem_lights and PPP-Applet
->> and just expand gnome-ppp (it works, why break it?)?
->> 
->> I propose (and I have no idea what's in CVS, i'm using the latest
->> stable tarballs):
->> 
->> - Gnome-PPP should be like the DUN in Windows95 in that it is available
->>   both as an application and as a menu-driven system from the panel.
->> 
->> - Get rid of modem_lights and PPP Applet
->> 
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