XFce4 Netload plugin
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This plugin should work on all operating systems supported by Xfce4. On Linux
and FreeBSD the code for reading the netload is integrated. The code for this is
based on IceWM from Marko Macek (http://www.icewm.org). Other operating systems
such as NetBSD, OpenBSD or Sun Solaris are supported by libgtop2 from the GNOME
desktop (but GNOME is not required by this library). This is because I have no
testing machines for all this operating systems and some systems require a
Client/Server model, i.e. there are root permissions needed to get out system
load and the Xfce4 panel is not running suid root. The library made this easier
to implement (it's implemented by the library and I didn't have to do that).

The panel plugin is based on the sample-plugin from Benedikt Meurer and on the
xfce4-systemload-plugin from Riccardo Persichetti. The layout is the same as the
systemload-plugin. This made programming very easy and looks good, too.

I'm not planning making much improvements in the future so if you want to take
over developement, just drop me a note. I just programmed it because I needed it
but I plan to maintain it so that it's running with the most current stable
release of Xfce.

If you have translations for your language, please mail me. I'll include it in
the distribution!


-Bernhard
<bernhard.walle@gmx.de>