Re: has anyone had a chance to look at my nm-applet patch?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 20:40 -0400, Katelin Ganzer wrote:
> On 10/29/07, Katelin Ganzer <katelin ganzer gmail com> wrote:
> > I was thinking that if the developers are opposed to having the
> > channel displayed inside the progress bar, that maybe they would be
> > okay with displaying a nicely formatted tooltip with a bunch of useful
> > info?

Like KNetworkManager :)  I'm not overly fond of their implementation,
which I feel crams way too much questionably important info into the
tooltip, but putting a few details into a tooltip like you've done here
might be useful.

However, there's one big caveat with 0.6.x.  APs are aggregated based on
SSID, and therefore if you have two APs on channel 1 and channel 6,
you'll only see one AP in the menu.  That's mostly by design.  Where
0.6.x gets it wrong is because it aggregates _too_ much (0.7 fixes
this).  So the problem here is that you _can't_ really show the mode,
the channel, the band, or the BSSID because you only get that
information from one randomly selected BSSID of the entire SSID.

I was under the impression that a patch like this would be useful
precisely due to situations where there were a number of APs with the
same SSID but different channels or security, which 0.6.x really won't
let you separate in the applet... :(

Dan

> > For example, maybe something like:
> >
> > <b>ESSID:</b> Katie's Network
> > <b>Address:</b> 00:19:5B:4C:F7:D1
> > <b>Protocols:</b> 802.11bg
> > <b>Frequency:</b> 2.437 GHz
> > <b>Channel:</b> 6
> > <b>Security:</b> None
> >
> > I don't know what else might be considered useful, and I'm not
> > necessarily volunteering to go to the lengths of writing the code to
> > get/display all of that info, but it would at least be a convenient
> > place for other people to add more info that they'd like t see in th
> > future.
> >
> > Of course, I've never actually implemented tooltips in Gtk before so
> > I'm not sure how to do it =)
> >
> > Katie
> >
> 
> It turns out that tooltips in Gtk aren't that hard, so I was able to
> implement this fairly easily. Attached is a patch that displays this
> information in a tooltip. Hopefully this will make it so that no one
> feels that too much info is displayed in the menu =)
> 
> I think my new patch makes it all nice and pretty =)
> 
> Katie
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