Introducing a new desktop applet to help keep track of cell bandwidth on an N900 - Personal GPRS Monitor

Right now the applet simple displays the amount of data the user has uploaded and downloaded while using the GPRS connection. It updates once a minute when it is being shown. When it is not shown it does not do any processing (to save you battery life).

Thanks to zerojay for the idea, design, and testing of this applet.

In future versions I will add configuration options, and perhaps a bandwidth graph. For the time being, it should be useful for monitoring those expensive data charges.

Version 0.2-2 is being built in extras-devel as I type this. I will promote it to extras-testing when I can.

Edit: Version 0.2-3 fixes my unfortunately prevalent typo

Edit Version 0.3-1: New icon (thanks joshua.maverick), updated layout, and options for refresh interval, binary or SI prefix, and display reset data.

Edit Version 0.3-2: Now the refresh interval the user chooses is actually used!

Edit Version 0.5-1: New layout with upload/download icons, easier to read numbers, and smaller foot print.

Edit Version 0.5-3: This version allows the user to switch between "compact" layout and "non-compact" layout.

Edit Version 0,5-5 is now in extras! Thanks to all the testers. The download page is http://maemo.org/downloads/product/M...onal-gprs-mon/

Edit Version 0.6-3 is now in extras-devel. This version fixes the data counter problem introduced in PR1.2. Also potentially fixes data overflow error.