Re: the future of GNOME Applets

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>]

Hi,

On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 13:53, DmD. (Spider) Ljungmark wrote:
> Davyd Madeley wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > Wireless Link Monitor
> > 	This has been completely superseeded by gnome-netstatus, plus
> > 	hopefully gnome-netstatus is going to get some serious HAL lovin
> > 	in the near future making it even more useful. FC is turning off
> > 	this applet in their packages, I would like to turn it off by
> > 	default here too.
> 
> 
> Now this I'm having issues with, Because the Current gnome-netstatus 
> applet -blinks- all the time.  This causes severe stress at the edges of 
> the visible field, especially on larger monitors, which is completly 
> distracting and bad from a usability perspective.
> 
> If the netstatus applet could just "shut up" and stop flickering around 
> it would be usable, because the cute graph on the side of it is nicer 
> than the ....thingie... with numbers that the wireless applet has.
> 
> However, at the moment, netstatus wouldn't be usable for daily use.

	Its funny - I always get one of two opinions about gnome-netstatus - 1)
"its great" or 2) some rant suggesting that the blinking causes ones
eyes apart.

	I can see how that because of the size of the area that changes on the
icons it might be a tad distracting for some, but my guess is we could
fix that with different icons which have more subtle changes between
states.

Cheers,
Mark.