Comment 13 for bug 307170

Hi Shirish and all,

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 09:16:29PM -0000, Shirish Agarwal wrote:
> Hi all,
> First of all, I am using 0.1.1 (as per changelog.gz) or
> 0.1.2-0ubuntu2 which was in gutsy.

Yepp, this version is really outdated in intrepid unfortunaltely :(.
0.1.2 version has still the configuration done by ~/.giplet directory,
after 0.1.6 it was switched to gconf.

> Salvatore (if you or whoever is the maintainer) what I would request
> or/and suggest is that put the version as a PPA if possible and get it
> built for Intrepid.

I'm only the maintainer of the Debian package, which get's synced into
Ubuntu. Since intrepid is released the version there will remain on
the gutsy version, that a bit a pity, so here are the packages for
intrepid in my PPA:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/carnil/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/carnil/ubuntu intrepid main

I uploaded version 0.1.8-2 there. Note: yesterday I prepared 0.2.0 the
newest upstream version for Debian, soon will also upload this version
to PPA.

> Secondly, it gets deleted from the panel if the resource (in this case
> getmyip.org is not up) . The only way to get it back working is to
> remove .giplet/ and then add the panel again to gnome-panel.

I assume, the problems will lower with the new version, hopefully. Can
you test it with the version from my PPA? Whit that, a line as
"www.getmyip.org whatismyip.org" should work, if getmyip.org is down
it should probe the second www.whatismyip.org.

> Also moving from getmyip.org to whatismyip.org also makes it hanged.
>
> There is actually also a need for a good error message in case the URL
> is down (but that's another bug)

The new version 0.2.0 implements a "tooltip" functionality, which
should show "No IP detected", if all given "interfaces" fails.

Would be great if you can test the 0.1.8 version, since 0.1.2 is
really old.

Kind regards
Salvatore