3g/dialup usability

[Carlos Romero]

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?

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> 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 the functionality seems to have been replaced by NetworkManager and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
>
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