Question on the packages

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 17:30 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 21:55 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Frank Murphy wrote:
> > > Basically got nowhere upstream.
> > > 
> > > So wil throw the suggestion here:
> > > 
> > > Network Manager, get some way to flash the icon if date is flowing, as
> > > at the moment it's impossible to tell with a cursory glancd.
> > > 
> > > Maybe flash red for sending, blue for receivng.
> > > no color no data.
> > 
> > Using colour is a bad idea especially for colour blind people.
> > 
> > Rahul
> > 
> 
> Then some easy eye-catching trick, have it dissapear if no date flowing,
> or vibrate. 

I think NM is not the place for this. There are tools such as gkrellm
which show traffic flow. Just use one of them.

poc