GNOME Wireless Applet / News: Recent posts

My work on a Linksys WAP11 SNMP manager is taking away much of my free coding time. You can check that out at http://gwap11.sourceforge.net. Until I make some progress with that (probably by something like late August), I'm going to keep this project on hold. I haven't stopped working on it, just spending less time on it than I was before. I also am taking a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/uservfs for something I'm working on at work, which is also eating into my brain time. :-) I'll keep this area posted as I start improving things again.

Okay, the source tree is as it will likely remain until v1.0. The applet is now it's own program, which will just deal with link/other monitoring features. The program that deals with managing card settings can be called from the applet, but is a separate program.

The makefiles now also install (or try to install) the gwireless (management) program as a consolehelper managed application. This means that it is especially important that people use the prefix and sysconfdir args to configure. I may actually hardcode the sysconfdir stuff in the make file (so that it ignores the configure options). I feel that this is a better default situation because most people may not read the README or INSTALL documents (which outline this requirement).

I'm working on retooling the directory layout, as I've determined that the management functionality needs to be their own application, but closely tied to the applet. The source tree, therefore, is well, um, in flux. Things don't compile and won't for a while. If you need or want to try it out, please download the tarball. CVS is going to be out of whack until the weekend.

Sujal

An initial release of a Wireless Monitor applet is now available. It currently just monitors link quality. Quality can be determined by how green or red the applet is (a mood applet if you will).

Currently looking for reviewers / GNOME wizards who can take a look at the code (it's a small applet) and tell me what things can be improved, especially in terms of GNOME/GTK/GUI coding. You can check out more details at http://gwifiapplet.sourceforge.net