System Load Indicator

Network speed should be reported in (kilo/mega) bits/s, not bytes

Bug #1283039 reported by Thomas Novin
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
System Load Indicator
Fix Committed
Medium
Michael Hofmann
System Load Indicator 0.5

Bug Description

It is common practice to report network speeds in terms of bits/s and not bytes/s.

Would be nice to have this as the default (and perhaps the current method as an alternative in the preferences)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_rate

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Mohammad AbuShady (coalwater) wrote :

If such change would be done I would prefer if it's a configuration that could be changed rather than something hardcoded.

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Michael Hofmann (mh21) wrote :

Hi Thomas,

that is supported as the function bitrate (instead of speed) in the version at ppa:~indicator-multiload/daily and should be available within a few minutes. Go to preferences, menu items and change "speed" to "bitrate" for the appropriate items. You can see all available functions/variables with a click on the help button.

Cheers
  Michael

Changed in indicator-multiload:
status: New → Fix Committed
milestone: none → 0.5
assignee: nobody → Michael Hofmann (mh21)
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Thomas Novin (thomasn80) wrote :

Nice! Will this be merged into trusty?

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Michael Hofmann (mh21) wrote :

I don't think so. I will try to get it into utopic, and it will appear in ppa:~indicator-multiload/stable after a while.

Cheers
  Michael

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