Simple fork with both up and down

sudo apt-get install build-essential libgtop2-dev libgtk-3-dev libappindicator3-dev git-core
git clone git://github.com/NaWer/indicator-netspeed.git
cd indicator-netspeed
make
sudo make install
indicator-netspeed &

The indicator will be put left of all your other indicators. If this is undesirable, the ordering index can be changed in gsettings:/apps/indicators/netspeed (use dconf-editor).

• Configuration options only accessible through dconf-editor, add a simple options menu.
• Allow toggling autostart at login.
• Do some magic when interfaces are added or disappear.
• The Makefile is a bit stupid right now and is probably specific to ubuntu.
• It's not packaged, create deb building scripts.

• On Ubuntu 12.04 :
  • The indicator keeps changing size to match the text, which pushes other indicators left and right all the time, which makes it very annoying and unusable.
  • Network-idle icon is a link to network-transmit-receive icon
    • See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/humanity-icon-theme/+bug/611336
    • You can use network-idle.svg (Ubuntu Ambiance theme) :

        sudo rm /usr/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-dark/status/22/network-idle.svg
        sudo cp network-idle.svg /usr/share/icons/ubuntu-mono-dark/status/22/

Originally written by Marius Gedminas [email protected]

Contributors:

• Tobias Brandt [email protected]
• Stefan Bethge (stefan at lanpartei.de)