Behaviour of system tray bandwidth indicator

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Thu Mar 20 23:50:27 UTC 2014



Am 20.03.2014 18:43, schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan:
> On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 17:57 +0100, Martin (KDE) wrote:
>> So there is nothing the popup can do about this. It gets several
>> informations like transfer started, in progress, ended/finised and
>> commited.
> 
> I'm not saying it can do anything about it, I'm saying it should not be
> misleading. It claims to show transfer bandwidth and time to completion,
> but both are egregiously wrong. As I suggested earlier it should tell
> the user that these indicators are not reliable when the target is a
> remote server.

in doubt it even does not and should not know that the target
is a remote server - if you mount a remote ressource the
application is not aware at all if it is a local disk or
a sshfs mount wrapped through 5 ssh tunnels and in the middle
a VPN tunnel

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