[plug] Writing a status applet for the Gnome2 panel

[Bernd Felsche]

On Thursday 04 March 2004 13:34, Onno Benschop wrote:
> I have a tortuous link to the outside world via a switch, a
> wireless link, a satellite link and a corporate firewall. I want
> to see what is working and what is not.

Have you investigated BigSister?

Comes in quite handy when monitoring functionality of networks and
network facilities.

> I looked around for ready made applets to do this, but found
> none. (Hints welcome)
>
> I figured it would be a three liner once I actually had the
> shell, so I went looking for documentation on how to write an
> applet.
>
> Can anyone point me to actually existing documentation for gnome2
> applets, since most refer to gnome1 and those don't seem to work.
>
> I've spent all afternoon installing all manner of -dev packages,
> even got one source applet to compile, but getting it to actually
> show up is another thing entirely.
>
> Why is this so horribly complicated?

Because, deep down; you want it to be so. :-)

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