I am one who spends much of my time trying to understand how to manage my home devices into an orchestra. For the technicals among us, this means introducing PC(s) to inter-operate on the LAN with all the other home LAN units.
The LAN taskbar icon in Puppy has the ability to invoke a LAN adapter connection subsystem (Frisbee, for example). This is one of the many important desktop services on the taskbar via the LAN icon(s),
This is so very important to users. Most of us understand how to issue a command or how to right-click the icon to an determine IP address. The mouse-over could/should deliver the IP address and is of extreme help when trying to quickly determine LAN location. This is one of those items which adds to the maturity we continue to see in PUPPY. And, this LAN information would have almost universal appeal for those of us who need LAN visibility...quickly.
Our past
Mouse-over the LAN icon shows a line detailing how much data has been transferred over the adapter it represents. Now, this was/is important for those users who ONLY have a single PC with a connection to an Internet provider (ISP) where one needs to monitor data transfers with the ISP has an impact on your cost.
Over the years, many-many households are now using routers, instead, to get to ISP for Internet service. And the need to monitor LAN data usage is of much lesser importance because that service of data transfer has moved from the PC to your router(s).
Today's need
What is so very important now is the PC's LAN IP address and whether it can see the public IP address from the ISP.
Questions on mouse-over addressing this maturity need?
- One question is: "How is the "mouse-over popup" controlled?" Related:, Can the mouse-over show the IP address of the adapter it represents?
- Can anyone explain its behavior and can someone help in having mouse-over show the IP address?
- Can the mouse-over be adjusted to accommodate this important information without a need to right-click and wait for a screen to see this 1-2 important items?
Thanks in advance