[Kde-hardware-devel] Re: KDE network manager speed (icon idea?)

Donato Marrazzo donato.marrazzo at gmail.com
Thu Nov 25 00:45:45 CET 2010


Thank you for the quick reply!

I understand the monochromatic "style" even if it's a bit boring ...
another idea is using a small letter near the wave G E U H ...
About the wave, it could something different from wifi like this:
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/icon-signal-tm.jpg

Bye, Donato

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Lamarque Vieira Souza
<lamarque at gmail.com> wrote:
>        Hi,
>
>        You must patch Solid 4.5.x (http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/3769/) and
> recompile both Solid and Plasma NM (distributions usuallly call its package
> knetworkmanager) to make the access technology (GSM, EDGE, UMTS, etc) and
> signal quality available. The "Unknown" speed problem has been fixed long ago,
> so I suppose you are using a very old Plasma NM release. Another alternative
> is using trunk or waiting for KDE SC 4.6.0 release later January next year.
>
>        I like the idea of using colors in the systray icon :-) I will do a test
> but I am afraid that would not fit the monochromatic icons plasma panel uses
> nowadays. Well, the "wave icon" is for wifi connections, 3G connections should
> use another icon to make it clear the computer is connected through 3G and not
> wifi.
>
> Em Tuesday 23 November 2010, Donato Marrazzo escreveu:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm using Fedora 14 - KDE 4.5.3.
>> I have an internal wwan card: Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0bdb:1900
>> Ericsson Business Mobile Networks BV F3507g Mobile Broadband Module
>> (Thinkpad T500).
>> In the kde network manager, I cannot see the quality of service of my
>> carrier, I mean GSM, EDGE, UMTS, etc. Connection Speed is "Unknown".
>> I'd like to see the network quality before of the connection as it
>> happens with the Gnome Network manager.
>> I have also an idea to improve the usability: Show the wireless
>> quality directly from the icon using colors, e.g. green for gprs, blue
>> for edge, yellow for umts, violet for HSPA... at the same time the
>> number of wave can show the signal power like common cell phone.
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>> Donato
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