dhcpcd-discuss

Hi Toki

On 07/01/2015 10:16, toki clover wrote:
> Thanks for this update.
> 
> Indeed, using icons instead of a gtk/qt widget to display the strength
> of the signal is good idead to simplify a few things.
> 
> I am using the popular Faenza icon theme, and so, I went to take a
> look at the status icons and no standard wireless status icons to be
> found.Well, there are `gnome-netstatus-$RANGE.png' icons (and NM)
> icons, however, they're not being used.
> 
> And I don't see any related signal strength icons in the installed files.
> 
> Question: What icons are being used for this?

network-wireless-connected-NN.svg where NN is 00, 25, 50, 75 or 100

> UI: [xembed]
> 
> It seems xembed is in trouble right now, some WM are removing
> xembed support. GNOME-3 decided to get rid of statusicons altogether
> (useless from their point of view.) I don't remember anymore
> the status of the fall back mode. (GNOME devs seem to look badly
> at it because it doesn't respect their new BRAND LOOK. What was
> the point of doing it in the first place?)
> 
> Libindicator seems to get the limelight at the moment.
> 
> Question: Any plan for libindicator support?

Yes, it does seem that the system tray icon has fallen out of support in
ultra modern desktops.
Each desktop now seems to be going it's own way - not that much of a big
deal other than we now need dhcpcd-$desktop programs rather than
dhcpcd-$toolkit programs. Sadly there are more desktops than toolkits
and I'm only one person! dhcpcd-qt took long enough to get going as it was.

I've not heard of libindicator until now and it seems to be Unity rather
than GNOME? I cannot commit to writing any other front ends right now. I
will probably pick one to start on soon. It's likely there will be a
dhcpcd-curses before anything else though.

Right now, my preferred order would be curses > EFL (enlightment) > KDE
plasmoid > GNOME3 whatever they now use.

Thanks

Roy