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Personal Dataplan Monitor?
Should be obvious we're not talking about WiFi data here.

The font is called Nokia Sans. And does it really matter what font the mockup has since the actual font is defined by programming.

Someone already mentioned that, but thanks for the reminder.

So I took off the extra stuff on the bottom (Average and Reset) and cleaned up some of the spacing

Nitpick: the units are a bit confusing/misleading. The prefix should be "K" (x 1000) or "Ki" (x 1024) and the base unit should be "B" (I assume the gconf values are in bytes, not bits).

Without a contract, you have no excuse or reason to put up with that. There are some decent options listed at http://wiki.maemo.org/Data_plans#United_Kingdom.

Yes. Ideally make it switchable between SI prefixes and binary prefixes and also do some intelligent formatting (switch to MiB/MB and GiB/GB after the counter goes over 1000 [SI prefixes] or 1024 [for binary prefixes]).

(Edit: Just read on that Wikipedia page that for SI units, 1000 is represented by a lowercase "k", so it would be "kB" for SI, but still "KiB" for binary)

Some "cosmetic" issues should also be thought about - do you want to allow different units for both up- and download or do you link them together, so when one switches to mega/mebi, the other does too? Also, do you want to hide trailing zeros after the dot or not? It'd be nice if the dots for both are aligned.

Thinking about this and implementing the formatting right will make the widget look much better

A feature request: Add a preference to disable automatic connection to cellular data connections after some limit has been hit. This way, users can usually automatically connect to cellular data, but when some pre-set limit is hit, they have to manually choose to connect to cellular data (until reset, at which point the user should either be asked to re-enabled it or do so automatically).

All that is already in there right now.

Thanks for all the replies (while I was sleeping). I will try to address some of them.

As far as units, the numbers are provided in bytes (B) and I do a straight conversion to make a more readable number. Thus for KB I divide by 1000. MB by 1000000. GB by 1000000000. The upload and download could be displayed in different units currently. I have thought it might be a good idea to link them.

As far as having extra data displayed on the widget, I don't think there is an easy and reliable way to get the average rate. I don't have any strong opinion on reset date, but I think it could be handy to some. Maybe a user option to display it?

Fonts and colours are easy to handle programatically. For the title font I use "SystemFont" which follows the theme. For the rest it is "SmallSystemFont". These two fonts are recommended in the Hildon HIG for dekstop widgets. Font colours would be "DefaultFontColor" and "SecondaryFontColor" which are also defined in the theme. Currently I am not using the secondary colour, but I will in the next version.

As for the icon, I will go with the consensus - but anything would be better than the mish-mash icon I made up for the app manager

Edit Oh yes, as for renaming it (again) it would be easy for the app manager and widget itself to display whatever text is chosen. I don't think I will actually rename the package itself, but that would be invisible to 99% of the users.

I think reset date is important if you add the feature to set some type of limit. Because the limit only makes sense in some type of timeframe (i.e. monthly).