Update on networkmanager plasmoid

[Shantanu Tushar Jha]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Sebastian Kügler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> After hiding under the rock and hacking on networkmanager, I'd like to give a bit of
> a status update on the plasmoid, and move towards getting better artwork in.

I wanted to try out the networkmanager plasmoid, but couldn't find it
(I tried in extragear and playground, but couldn't guess). Where is it
located?

Thanks :)
>
> On Friday 06 November 2009 23:48:07 Nuno Pinheiro wrote:
>> On Friday, 6 de November de 2009 19:20:54 Andreas Demmer wrote:
>> > Nuno Pinheiro:
>> > > if i was doing it exclusively for air it would be something like this,
>> > >  with  more contrast maybe....
>> >
>> >
>> > Attached is a side-by-side comparison with an improved version with
>> > better contrast. If you like this, I will do the other states to. Thanks
>> > to your SVG template it was very easy to do! :-)
>> >
>> > Greets,
>> > Andreas
>> >
>>
>> excelent
>
> I really like them, too. Can I have them in SVN, in all sizes? :)
>
> http://vizzzion.org/tmp/nm-plasmoid-alpha-2.ogv
>
> In the video, you can see the networkmanager plasmoid (not knetworkmanager!) sitting
> in the panel's systray area. the popup shows networkinterfaces on the left,
> checkboxes for dis/enabling networking altogether and dis/enabling wireless. On the
> right, you have two tabs, the Connections tab shows the available connections: when
> the wireless network is plugged in (it's not in the video), it'll show an available
> connection and connect automatically. You can click on those connections, and it will
> pop up connection dialogs as needed.
> The plasmoid has become a rather thin UI for the whole networkmanager stack now.
>
> As you can see, I've changed a couple of things according to the results in this
> discussion. Indeed no overlay for connected, as you can see. I've not done the VPN
> overlay yet, but am planning to. (Which icon should be used for this?)
>
> = connecting ... =
>
> For the "connecting" state, I wanted to show the progress somehow. I experimented a
> bit with a progress bar, and now have a ring that completes itself while the
> interface is connecting. The different steps have distinct states, a bit like a
> clock, so you can tell "when it's at 0900, it's waiting for a dhcp lease. After the
> connection succeeds, the ring becomes green and fades out after a couple of seconds.
>
> = painting =
>
> I've also changed the applet so that it will only use sizes predefined by KIconLoader
> (so we don't randomly scale, but can get pristine, pixel-perfect painting of the icon
> pixmaps -- as long as all sizes are there). I've ditched the SVG in favor of using
> KIcon, so we're not bound by Qt's lacking of SVG filters.
>
> = layout problem =
>
> the wireless networks list on the right hand side of the popupapplet actually sits
> inside a scrollwidget. I can't get the scrollbars to show, though, the layout just
> overflows. It would be nice if someone could have a look at this, I've been staring
> at it repeatedly and just can't see what I'm doing wrong there. You can see the
> problem in the screencast when a longer list of wireless networks overflows into the
> manage connections IconWidget. It's basically TabWidget holds two
> ActivatableListWidgets which are ScrollWidgets.
>
> I've updated the networkmanagement/applet/README.txt with a couple of TODO items, if
> you want to help out.
>
> In general, I feel that most things are falling into place now, it's developing
> nicely and that the UI concept works quite well as it's now.
>
> P.S.: if you wonder what the crappy LSD-style blending in the changing labels is,
> that's the radeon graphics driver :/
>
> Cheers,
> --
> sebas
>
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