[plug] Writing a status applet for the Gnome2 panel

[Bernd Felsche]

On Thursday 04 March 2004 14:12, Onno Benschop wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 16:42, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> > 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?

> Hmm, if I wanted to fill the screen with a status report on my
> network, I could just run three terminal windows with ping in it.

BigSister does much more than that.

> That is not what I want.
>
> All I want is little status icon showing the state of a host.
> Green for fine, Orange for missing packets, Red for dead. Then I
> want to be able to configure the interval, the host and if I can
> only have one host per instance I want to run multiple instances.

Picky; picky.

Pull apart BigSister and pick the bits you want.

> And I want it on my panel.
>
> Again... Why is this so complicated?
>
> PS. I am a subscriber of the list, so there is no need to send me
> a message as well as one to the list...

That happens when the Reply-To: of the message you're sending also
has your own address:

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It's either something you're doing, or the list manager has changed.

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