On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 17:39 +0900, Ryan McDougall wrote: > On Wed, 2005-30-03 at 10:16 +0200, DmD (Spider) Ljungmark wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 10:39 +0900, Ryan McDougall wrote: > > > > > > This applet was written by Sun for JDS and considered better than the > > > the previous one. I'm not sure why the signal strength and silly > > > monitors aren't good enough, but you are welcome to file a bug report > > > and/or submit a patch. > > > > > > > Oh. Quite simple reason really. > > They blink. > > In an utterly obnoxious way in a desktop where the -only- thing that by > > default changes state unless it -really- wants my attention is the > > cursor for the mouse, that thing -blinks-. > > > > //Spider > > How would you prefer it to tell you its transmitting if it doesn't > change state? In fact everything that I can think of conveys information > by changing state. Frankly, I don't care about the transmitting or not information. I changed to the new monitor applet because the signal strength monitor I had before was removed. I care about the signal strength, not in means that I check it regularly, but that I check it whenever things appear slow. Its a simple convenience thing, I could probably use gkrellm or something else, but I don't want to. As for transmitting/not, the system monitor applet manages to show that very well without actually -blinking-. The key here is that movement is usually acceptable as long as it is smooth and transient between states, whereas blinking is not acceptable. > > If you don't want it to convey information then why do you want it on > your panel? Personally I have the panel that it is on on auto-hide so it > only blinks at me when I want it to. I want my panel constantly visible, because that is also where I have the notification area, and I want my notifications. I don't want the transmit / no transmit info. I got that, no matter if I want it or not when I got the new functionality of the net monitor applet. > > Perhaps what your looking for is a notification applet that tells you > only when the link goes down? I think that would be a cool thing to > write if you were so interested. Actually, I wouldn't want that either. My link goes up/down a few times a day, and it would become notorious very soon. :-) > If all you want is signal strength, both redhat and novell have their own notification applets. They do? Can you point me to the package names and source repos for these? //Spider _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
