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

[Kai Uwe Broulik]

> On Oct. 13, 2011, 5:32 p.m., Lamarque Vieira Souza wrote:
> > The patch works, but the icon for unknown access technology is too similar to nm-applet's wifi icon and may cause confusion. Maybe we should add an interrogation sign (?) to indicate the unknown access technology.

I think it's common fashion to have that antenna with "rounded waves" as WiFi icon and the staircase bars as mobile, it's found that way on most (if not all) smartphones.
Concerning that access technology: I did not want to confuse users with unneccessary details, I think people don't care about access technology. If it is known, it will be displayed, if it is not known, I doubt it would do anything except for adding clutter/distraction if there was a question mark at that position.


- Kai Uwe


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On Oct. 13, 2011, 8:38 a.m., Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 13, 2011, 8:38 a.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 8c2dc2e 
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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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