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

[Tarun Ramakrishna Elankath <tarun webkadai com>]

Thanks everybody!

On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 02:37, David Coulthart wrote:
> 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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