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The application icon contains 16x and 32x sizes but windows selects the 32x size icon and downscales it using a crude algorithm that renders the icon in an unappealing way. This needs to be investigated and fixed so it uses the prescribed 16x version.

To easy deployment a simple installer should be used to distribute the application instead of expecting users to extract files manually.

If the window is restored, but no longer the active window, clicking the taskbar button causes the app to become hidden even though it is not currently visible anyway. If the app is not active, clicking the taskbar button should always cause the app to be displayed.

📝 This issue does not affect the app when running in topmost mode.

It might be useful to have the application periodically check for updates. It should be possible to query the GitHub releases to determine if a newer version has been published.

Currently the only way to know what the toolbox icons do is to either explore the verbs on the tray icon context menu or to just click on them and observe. This could be enhanced by better documentation but I believe an application should be self-explanatory, without relying on documentation, so the best answer seems to be tooltips.

It is too tedious to manually calibrate graph speed. The application should be able to enter a calibration mode during which time it samples the adapter speed and detects the maximum throughput until calibration mode ends.

The current logo sucks. Let's design a new one.

Create a fully rescalable UI with vector graphics. See: Is there a way to render SVG in Windows Forms?.

There is significant disparity between how forms look at runtime and how they appear at design time. It is desirable to have them look as similar as possible in both modes. In particular, many border lines are currently not drawn in design mode.

It should be possible to reskin the entire net graph window, perhaps with support for theme files so different schemes can be shared with other people.

Presently all units are displayed in kilobytes per second in cramped UI spaces. Large values will probably not fit on the display. Regardless of whether they fit, it is probably preferable to select the most appropriate byte scale depending on the actual value as in ByteFormatter.

There are currently no tests for the entire application. Every part can and should be tested by a separate test project to achieve complete code coverage.

In order to monitor just Internet traffic it should be possible to filter LAN traffic on the specified network adapter (or vice versa). The current API does not support this level of traffic inspection so research must be conducted to discover an alternative method of adapter sampling.

The status bar is quite cramped at present. Converting some of the text to icons would save space and be more intuitive at-a-glance.

Some Internet connections have unequal upload and download capacities. Typically the upload cap is less than that of the download. In such configurations, the upload bar will never reach the same height as the download because they share the same scale. Generally it makes sense for them to share the same scale since they remain proportional to each other, but some users might prefer unlinked scales such that both streams can utilize the full height of the graph.

It might be worth implementing this separately for the graph and the tray icon meters such that this feature can be toggled independently for both.

Alternatively it might suffice to just add a second peak line.

Although there exists several tools to merge assemblies there have been problems with the ones investigated so far.

Fody/Costura seems to be the best solution available but currently suffers from a blocking bug.

ILMerge was the classic solution but hasn't been updated since 2012 and seems to modify the .NET Framework dependency version. When I tried to run it, it failed to merge with an error.

A setting to load the application at system start-up should be added. However, this introduces platform-dependant code into the application which needs to be handled carefully if cross-platform support is to be achieved/maintained in future.

Normally right-clicking on buttons should not perform the click action.