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Applets for use with the MATE panel
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Netspeed expanding/shrinking perpetually #279

Open martywd opened 6 years ago

martywd commented 6 years ago

Expected behaviour

Adjust size to maximum necessary as dictated by up/down speed displayed and then freeze position as was previous behavior in MATE Netspeed 1.16

Actual behaviour

Netspeed 1.18.1 constantly resizes causing icons in 'Notification Area' to jump left-to-right-to-left making mouse cursur interaction with icons in the Notification Area very difficult.

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

Position Netspeed applet in between Clock and Notification Area (all applets locked)

MATE general version

MATE 1.18.x

Package version

MATE Netspeed (mate-netspeed-applet) 1.18.1

Linux Distribution

Linux Mint MATE 18.2 Sonya 64-bit

Link to downstream report of your Distribution

If I'm reading this correctly, @r2rien discussed pros/cons of Netspeed constantly resizing in this previous issue post ==> https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-applets/issues/189#issuecomment-236397650

r2rien commented 6 years ago

So if you implement this, please make it optional

failed or gtk3 switch side effect ?

godfuture commented 5 years ago

I think this is a good idea. I also do not like this applet changing size frequently. As this applet allows to display the unit, and the units scale over the size of 1000 why not always displaying three numbers. If the threshold changes more than 1000, we could simply change the unit, but we always keep three digits. The size of the applet will not change anymore.

r2rien commented 5 years ago

we always keep three digits

ok for me!

lukefromdc commented 5 years ago

I also think this should be a fixed-size applet. Jumping applets are a real nuisance, though I see from the referernced discussion that others saw this as a feature. One option would be to make fixed or variable size user-selectable, though of course the more such checks a program has to make the more time and resources (at least in theory) are needed to execute the extra code. That on the other hand is the excuse GNOME gives for removing so many options and features.

muktupavels commented 5 years ago

That on the other hand is the excuse GNOME gives for removing so many options and features.

What?

lukefromdc commented 5 years ago

I saw some GNOME documentation a while back explaining that the more user options a program has, the more CPU cycles, RAM, etc have to be used checking them all at runtime. That was cited (I have forgotten where this was) as the reason for not trying to include all possible options and is not new.

geckolinux commented 4 years ago

Yep, this is definitely rather annoying. Until a more elegant solution is found would it be possible to let the user specify a fixed width for it, similar to the way the System Monitor applet works?