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

[mmassonnet at gmail.com]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 02:01:04PM +0100, Landry Breuil wrote:
> On Nov 14, 2007 1:36 AM, Christoph Wickert
> <christoph.wickert at nurfuerspam.de> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Seems to work fine on OpenBSD, but is it possible to add :
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <sys/socket.h>
> just before #include <net/if.h> in panel-plugin.c ? This fixes a
> trivial compilation problem..
> 
> Anyway, i'll probably patch source in our tree to make it less
> debian-oriented, as we use
> ppp -ddial and pkill ppp :)

Sure.

> Landry


mike