Bandwidth throttling GUI

Brainstorm
1

Some tools and applications on Linux take up all the available bandwidth. Even if there is a lot of bandwidth available, they take all of it. They have no built-in traffic throttling feature.

A small GUI tool that allows to assign a bandwidth limit to tools and applications would allow to manage the traffic.

For example one could assign a maximum value of kb/s or kbit/s to an application or one could assign a maximum percentage of the total bandwidth to an application.

2

this sounds like something that should be in the system tray.

either as its own widget (like the volume widget) or as a feature of the networking widget.

3

The difficulty for this is most likely which service or OS feature this GUI would be controlling.

Network connections are usually handled between the application and the operating system without the desktop even knowing, let alone being “in the loop”.