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Summary: 
a Wireless quality monitor applet
Current stable version: 
003
Primary author(s): 
Cyrille Mars, Ken hayber

Summary:
a Wireless quality monitor applet

Current stable version:
003

Home page:
http://code.google.com/p/rox-wifi/wiki/WiFi

Primary author(s):
Cyrille Mars, Ken hayber

WiFi is an Applet for monitoring the status (signal strength) of your Wireless connection.

It shows the status as an icon (with several themes) with detailed statistics in a tooltip.

(Note: The original applet was written by Cyrille Mars and is hosted at http://www.m4rs.org; but it seems to not be there any more. I have been hacking on my own copy and decided to release it as version 002.)

WiFi / NetworkManager

What's the relationship between WiFi and NetworkManager (if any)?

http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager

(NetworkManager is a D-BUS system service for managing wired and wireless network connections. It interacts with the user via an applet such as GNOME's nm-applet.)

re: WiFi / NetworkManager

Currently none. I have been very interested in NM and finally it is in Gentoo so I can build it, but haven't got it working on my system yet. WiFi _could_ become a ROX front-end to NM. Currently it is just a monitor. (We can't run gnome applets in ROX panel, right?)

nm-applet on ROX

nm-applet uses the freedesktop.org system tray spec, so it runs fine under ROX in SystemTrayN. It doesn't seem quite complete yet though (e.g. I have to enter the password every time I join an encrypted network, even if I've been there before).

NetworkManager ToDo list

The password issue is slated to be addressed in the 0.7 timeframe. See here

(I didn't realize that it used the system tray. That works fine. But I still can't get it to connect to my AP.)

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