Package Request: GNOME netspeed applet

[Jaap A. Haitsma]

Colin Charles wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 23:44, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote:
>  
> 
>>>>I like it because it gives you a rough idea why sometimes you have to 
>>>>wait a long time for a webpage to appear. It's also pretty popular. I 
>>>>come across this applet often when I see screenshots on the web
>>>
>>>
>>>Thats a nifty little applet. Current tools mostly produce data for site admins
>>>not immediate user feedback. Is this something the author plans to submit for
>>>gnome 2.6 do you know ?
>>>
>>
>>Glad you like it too :-). I haven't spoken with the author. It's maybe a 
>>good idea if you contact him and encourage him to submit it. I guess 
>>alan cox of redhat will make a bigger impression on him then jaap 
>>haitsma ;-)
> 
> 
> I have (spoken to the author). There was a proposal to include it in
> gnome-applets. However, an issue opened up with it merging with
> gnome-system-monitor (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97664).
> 
> However, the author still would like the applet exactly as what it is -
> to display network traffic numbers (not in graphs).
> 
> For GNOME 2.6, the network-status-applet by Mark McLoughlin has been
> prposed for inclusion, and it duplicates some netspeed features. So,
> including both doesn't seem viable?
> 
> Jeff Waugh has had a thought of a gnome-powertools package, and he
> wanted to include netspeed - the author is agreeable, but Jeff has been
> silent about the issue.

The displaying of the traffic numbers is actually what I like so much 
about the applet. The gnome-powertools package seems like a good idea to me