new package: gnome-netstatus

[Mark McLoughlin]

Hi,

On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 11:52, Gene C. wrote:
> On Friday 05 March 2004 05:34, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 	I added the gnome-netstatus applet to Raw Hide a few days ago. I'd
> > appreciate it if people could test it out and give me feedback, either
> > by mail or (preferably) through bugzilla.
> >
> > -----------
> >         The Network Monitor is a little applet which sits on your
> > panel flashing away at you so as to give you an idea of whats
> > happening on your network interface.
> >
> >         It also has a little dialog to give you more information about
> > the network interface.
> > ------------
> The display on the panel has two terminal-like images but only monitors a 
> single interface.  If, as I suspect, the two "terminals" are intended to 
> display input and output, you might want to use different colors or something 
> to differential between input and output.

	Yeah, the icons need work. Hopefully Garrett can do some nice Bluecurve
ones.

	Feel free to play around with different ideas yourself. The icons are
in /usr/share/icons/gnome-netstatus - one icon for each state.

> I did notice a small problem (I will try to remember to bugzilla it later) -- 
> when you bring up the applets properties and hit the configue button, it 
> invokes network configuration but does not switch to root first.

	Make sure to bugzilla that.

Thanks,
Mark.