Re: [gnome-love] Comments requested on Idea for a new Gnome App.

[David Coulthart <davec columbia edu>]

I believe there is already an applet to do this, netspeed_applet.  It's
home page is http://mfcn.ilo.de/netspeed_applet/

Sorry to rain on your parade, but I'm sure they would love more
developers.  I don't use the applet often, but every so often it's very
handy & I'm glad to have found it.

HTH,
Dave C.

On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 17:15, Tarun Ramakrishna Elankath wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am a linux developer newbie and thought the best way to acquire skills
> in Gnome programming would be to develop a small, useful Gnome utility.
>
> I want to develop an application that sits in the panel notification
> area and shows the flow of traffic over a selected network interface. I
> have in mind the features of the Windows "Show connection in System
> Tray" utility. There would be 2 computer icons (local and remote), which
> flash as data is sent over the interface.
>
> I am not aware of any such existing application in Gnome. Please correct
> me if I am wrong. If there already a similar application present, I
> would love to contribute to its development.
>
> I am confused about the ways in which I should measure traffic over the
> interface. I can think of:
> 1) Regularly polling /proc/net/dev in a separate thread and keep
> updating the panel lights.
> 2) Register my app as a netfilter user-space extension. Use libipq and
> its predefined handlers to update the panel lights.
>
> 1) has the advantage of being easy to code, but is limited in extent.
> 2) has loads of power, but would require quite a bit of learning on my
> part. Besides I believe this option would require superuser privileges.
>
> All comments, tips pointers will be appreciated,
>
> Thank you,
> Tarun
>
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