Help to implement some features

Paul Marchouk pmarchouk at gmail.com
Mon Apr 19 22:36:25 CEST 2010


19.04.2010 20:28, Lamarque Vieira Souza пишет:
> Em Segunda-feira 19 Abril 2010, Will Stephenson escreveu:
>   
>> On Saturday 17 April 2010 02:00:45 Lamarque Vieira Souza wrote:
>>     
>>> 	I would like to implement this feature in the knetworkmanager's TODO:
>>> Extended information (System/user connection; IP config; pppStats bytes
>>> up/down stats (FEATURE) etc)
>>>
>>> 	I would also like to implement bytes accounting like kppp/kppplogview
>>> 	do.
>>>
>>> I use 3G connection and transfered bytes counting is important to me. By
>>> what I have found we can use Linux netlink interface to implement this,
>>> the obvious problem is that as far as I know that only works in Linux. We
>>> do not need need root privileges to access netlink interface, which is
>>> good, and it gives statistics for all network interfaces, not only pppX.
>>>
>>> 	Is anyone working on that feature?
>>>       
>> Hi Lamarque
>>
>> I'm not aware of anyone working on it atm.  The code already existed in the
>> 0.2 KDE 3 knetworkmanager code but was never reimplemented for KDE 4. 
>> Please go ahead and ask questions if you need to.  There are feature
>> requests on bugs.kde.org so you would make some friends by adding this to
>> KNM
>>     
> 	Ok, I will take a look at 0.2 source code. I am looking at 
> knetworkmanager code now and it there are other little things that I think can 
> be done too. For instance, there is no route information available in the 
> tooltip, it always returns "No route data available", only for KDE 4.2.95 it 
> tries to get the information. I removed the #if KDE_IS_VERSION(4, 2, 95) but 
> it still returns a empty route list, I would like to change that too since it 
> seems an easy thing to do (I may be wrong :-)).
>
> 	During this weekend I found that ModemManager already have a 
> GetSignalQuality method, I would like to add this information to the tooltip 
> too. Do you know where I need to change to add it?
>
>   
Hi Lamarque, I have a patch for storing/getting routes information (IPv4
settings). And if routes info is blocking you I can check it in. UI is
not polished, but it works.
-Pavel



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