kmodemlights-applet:

This is a applet for the KDE-panel kicker, that watches a modem and
allows to connect and disconnect the modem.

Why?

After trying to switch from GNOME (2.4) back to KDE (3.2.0), I had to
notice there are some things missing I learned to love while using
GNOME. One of this was modemlights, so I decided to port it to KDE.
The others were:
- a nice terminal-emulator like gnome-terminal.
  konsole is hard to stand, for its abysmal configuration and
  behaviour when changing fonts and size.
- a device-mounter/unmounter like GNOMEs drivemount_applet.
  the devices-applet uses too much space and is to unflexible to
  configure.
- and panel cpu/network-load applets
  the sysguard-applet might turn out usable some time the flaws are
  fixed.

But there is already kppp:

I know there is kppp but that's not what I wanted because of the way
it works. kppp assumes that the user has access to the modem and
(miss-) configures his dialup-connection itself.

I feel that the dialup-connection should be configured by root and the
user should simply use it. Most distributions offer tool for this, on
debian-system p.e. there is pppconfig to configure dialup-connections
and pon/poff to go online and offline. A connection configured this
way can be used with KDE, GNOME, twm and even in a terminal-session.

	Have a lot of Fun.
	bmg



