[Goodies-dev] ANN: xfce4-modemlights-plugin version 0.1.4 RC released

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Montag, den 12.11.2007, 09:54 +0100 schrieb mmassonnet at gmail.com:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 09:36:19AM +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> 
> Hi Christoph,
> 
> > Am Donnerstag, den 08.11.2007, 08:41 +0000 schrieb
> > mike.massonnet at gmail.com:
> > > Hello Xfce,
> > > 
> > > I have happily ported the Modem Lights plugin to the latest Xfce4-panel
> > > API.  Modem Lights is a quick button in the panel to turn on/off the
> > > dialup (ppp) connection.  It works with the scripts pon and poff
> > > provided by the ppp package on most distributions/systems.
> > 
> > By most distributions? AFAIC only Debian-based distributions come with
> > these scripts. Why not use ifup/ifdown?
> 
> I wrote too fast, you can use whatever connect/disconnect script you
> want, just check out the website[0].

I know :) I maintained the modemlights plugin for Fedora an patched it
to use ifup/ifdown by default.

Nice to see modemlights is back again, should be available in Fedora
soon.

Christoph