I wrote an applet that makes an API call every 10 minutes, but I want it to show a message if the computer is offline. This means I need to get the network status within QML. I thought a DataEngine might be available, but there isn’t.

I read the code for plasma-nm and found this solution hack:

import org.kde.plasma.networkmanagement 0.2 as PlasmaNM
PlasmaNM.NetworkStatus {
    id: networkStatus
}
PlasmaComponents3.Label {
    visible: networkStatus.networkStatus != "Connected"
    text: i18n("Network disconnected")
}

But I think comparing strings is a terrible way because I don’t know what will happen in other locales.

Is there a better way?

Link to my code

  • fkfdOP
    1·
    1 year ago

    that would be ideal! but I can’t seem to find a way to do it natively without some C++ library like this one?

    • lecris@lemmy.kde.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      I need to setup notifications here. I am not familiar with how qml works, but can’t ituse qt native integration, like the one documented in the kde page