[Completed] Porting KNetStats to KDE5 (or pure Qt5/Qt6)

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I’m looking forward to KNetStats being ported to KDE5 or better yet to pure Qt5/Qt6 (without using KDE Frameworks) but only if you’re interested in this application yourself. I’m ready to pay up to $50 for the trouble (via Paypal or USDT), and if it feels too little to you, please don’t bother. I’m not a citizen of a first-world country and this is a very considerable sum of money for me.

Aside from porting, integer data types must be adjusted but there’s already a patch for that.

A bonus point would be making the app compatible with Windows and releasing Windows binaries.

Thank you for your attention.

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I’m attempting this, but Qt3 is two decades old and just ‘porting’ seems to be very hacky. It needs quite a bit of work.

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Fantastic work, thanks a ton!

Do interfaces systray icons work?

One of the things I absolutely loved about KNetStats is that it allowed to have a systray icon per network interface, so you always know what’s up and running.

And I used a long time ago but it had a preference dialog which allowed to “ignore” network interfaces (useful for virtual and other auxiliary network interfaces you’re not interested in).

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I’m working on that right now, but no it isn’t plumbed in yet. I’ve mainly been trying to move from now-nonexistent KDE APIs to pure Qt, fixing visual layout, and using modern Qt for things like loading icons/images and config files.

Yeah, that’s the “To monitor the interface” setting you see there (the English translation needs some work).

I can’t say this will be done any time soon, but I’ll update when per interface tray icons work

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Per interface tray icons now work. As you can see icon themes work per interface too.

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It’s now in pure Qt5 (excluding KWidgetsAddons, which doesn’t depend on anything else as far as I can tell). I’ve yet to complete displaying upload/download text in the system tray, it’s only the changing icons for now.

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Thoughts?

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Per interface tray icons now work. As you can see icon themes work per interface too.

Thanks a ton for your work!

It’s now in pure Qt5 (excluding KWidgetsAddons, which doesn’t depend on anything else as far as I can tell).

This (KWidgetsAddons) sounds perfectly fine. I won’t complain.

I’ve yet to complete displaying upload/download text in the system tray, it’s only the changing icons for now.

If you manage to figure it out, it would be great. Blinking systray icons for interfaces and a pop-up with stats are basically everything I hoped/needed/desired.

I don’t remember what the Details tab contained. Probably IPv4 address? Netmask? Default route? I wonder if the application supported IPv6. Would be great to show this info if it’s available.

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Finally done! I’ve released v2.0.0.alpha :tada:
For anyone who is interested here is the repository:

There aren’t any prebuilt binaries yet, but I’ve published an AUR package under the same name here

Hopefully some people find this useful (no guarantees on stability just yet :melting_face:). Please report any bugs if you do use it!
Big thanks to @birdie for helping troubleshoot during development

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@ngraham

@sitter

Any chance of marking this topic “Done/Complete/Accomplished”? Thanks!

I can no longer edit the title or description.

AFAIK Discourse has this feature, would be great if you enabled it for this subforum.

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Good idea. I think @sitter will have to do it, as I couldn’t find a way to make that change from my admin console.

Do I take this to mean that feature has been implemented to your satisfaction and the bounty paid?

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Yep, only it’s not a “feature”, that was a “rewrite”. :slight_smile:

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It’s now possible to mark things solved.

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Is it possible to integrate this project with the rest of KDE applications? What needs to be done for that? What’s the process?

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I remember the days when we all used this program. I could see using it now if it were in the repos. :smiley:

With 694 views of the original post, there must be at least a bit of interest.

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How we’d probably implement this in Plasma now is to use KSystemStats to provide sensors for this data that can be used in System Monitor. We have Upload/Download speed and total downloaded/uploaded already, just not in packets. This could be used to build a System Monitor page.

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