On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 17:51 -0500, Carlos Romero wrote: > I might be interested. > Thinking of a billing period reset and overage warnings too. > NMize modemlights by removing the connect button or connecting it to > NM and change the preferences to something simpler. > any thoughts? Yeah, maybe a "Usage" button in the 3G page of the connection editor which opens a new dialog, with a button that would force-reset the usage, and a calendar picker which you could set to a date + time to automatically reset usage when your billing cycle resets. And a "max usage" spinner which, if you get within say 10% of which the applet would warn you in yellow, 5% it would warn you in red, etc :) Thinking further, if you get within 1%, the applet could actually deny you the ability to activate that 3G connection and nicely explain why, using a picture of your mobile provider stealing a fat wad of cash out of a small crying child's hands. Dan > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 13:18 -0500, Carlos Romero wrote: > >> Is anybody still using the gnome modem lights applet for connecting > >> and monitoring? > >> the functionality seems to have been replaced by NetworkManager and > >> the system monitor applet for a while now. > >> Although I have never initiated a modem connection with NM, It's been > >> so long that I forgot what the handshake sounded like. > >> On a side note the monitor applet is not showing network activity but > >> the application is, at least with 3g. > > > > For now, nm-applet doesn't have modem-lights support. Partially that's > > because the icon area is used for a lot of other stuff like signal > > strength display too. So especially for 3G modems, the current > > modemlights icons just wouldn't work in combination with signal > > strength. If you want the modem lights stuff, the best option is to run > > both modem-lights and nm-applet for now. > > > > An open bug (and something trivial to implement, if somebody wants to > > I'm happy to explain how it should be done) is to track data transfer > > totals for 3G devices in nm-applet. NetworkManager already emits > > signals on D-Bus for how much data the PPP interface has used; the > > applet simply needs to listen for those and keep a running total in the > > connection object in GConf, then have a "Reset Totals" button somewhere > > in the connection editor for it. > > > > Dan > > > > -- > > fedora-devel-list mailing list > > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > > > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
