Review Request: Make Network Manager show signal strength in system tray also for mobile broadband connections

[Kai Uwe Broulik]

> On Oct. 12, 2011, 3:49 p.m., Lamarque Vieira Souza wrote:
> > the network.svgz is incomplete, it still needs the bars for LTE, EDGE, GPRS. The string "3G" should be changed to "UMTS" and HSPA is not exactly the same as HSDPA.

I was yet too lazy adding them because when I change the look of one I have to change lots of bars, and I did so already four times or so but I will add the missing ones.
Okay, I just thought "3G" looks cooler than UMTS, my phone just has "G", "E", "3G" and "H" for those cases. Well HSPA is HSDPA+HSUPA and you usually use both ;) And I considered "HSDPA" too long to be properly readable in the tray icon, but I will change that.
And I am not an artist but I noticed that my Inkscape skills are not as bad as I thought *g*


- Kai Uwe


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On Oct. 11, 2011, 4:05 p.m., Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 11, 2011, 4:05 p.m.)
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> Review request for Network Management.
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> Description
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> As I now use a Surfstick to get to the internet, I found it handy to see the signal strength right in system tray like WiFi connections do, rather than opening the popup all the time.
> This patch resolves this issue by making the system tray show the signal strength as well as the access technology (Edge, umts, etc) in a similar way like Plasma Active's (fake?) mobilesignal widget does, where I also borrowed the graphics from :P
> I currently only respected the Plasma SVG icon case, i.e. when you do not use SVG graphics, it uses the generic phone icon still, as we do not yet have a icon naming spec for such cases and do not have icons either, so the tooltip and popup have the generic phone icon.
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> I added the HSDPA and 3G strength icons to the network.svgz icon file from network manager. See attachments.
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> This addresses bug 283776.
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283776
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> Diffs
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>   applet/networkmanager.cpp 73a9cf4 
>   libs/internals/uiutils.cpp f90e44e 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102827/diff/diff
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> Testing
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> Compiles and works okay.
> It is not yet perfect but I think it is a good start.
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> Known issues:
>  - The strength indicator is only updated if you click (hover?) the system tray icon. The konsole output states that the signals "Solid::Control::ModemGsmNetworkInterface::signalQualityChanged()" do not exist (but I don't know why?) and thus not being triggered
>  - When not connected, there is either no icon at all (I wanted to use the no-wifi connected icon as fallback) or the 3G with 50% strength (this is weird)
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> Screenshots
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> HSDPA tray icon
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102827/s/289/
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> Thanks,
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> Kai Uwe Broulik
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