Re: [i3] [i3status] [PATCH] Network throughput
- From: Mathias Buhr <buhr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Discussions/Questions about the i3 window manager <i3-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:24:53 +0100
On 03/12/2012 11:20 PM, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
Hi Mathias,
Excerpts from Mathias Buhr's message of 2012-03-12 13:14:51 +0100:
I've patched i3status to monitor incoming & outgoing network traffic
Thanks for posting your patch. I am not very interested in merging it, though,
on the one hand for the reason you already mentioned (it introduces a lot of
code), and on the other hand I don’t really think that incoming/outgoing
network traffic is a good metric for anything except very special use cases —
and for those, there are already tools :).
Best regards,
Michael
Hi Michael,
first of all: thank you for i3! I really appreciate your work on that!
I agree with your comments and I have thought about them already. I
don't see the network throughput as accurate measurement but as clue
about what is going on. It is more or less just a hint and I didn't want
to use any extra tools/screen space for that. In my case it was actually
very helpful in finding the culprit. After all, the use of network
throughput is a choice. If a user doesn't like it, they don't have to
add it to their config.
As there seem to be some interest from other users: I could try to trim
the code. A few of the supported architecture are probably not needed
(solaris, hpux, bsd?) although it's nice to have them.
Best regards,
Mathias
P.S.: I think some modules of i3status produce wrong output when using
i3bar output mode. I wanted to fix that but a question arose: what is
this mode supposed to do anyway? The manual of i3bar explicitly wants
output_format to be "none". Is it just some kind of legacy? We could
trim that too
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