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LinuxCon: Mobile network management with ConnManLinuxCon: Mobile network management with ConnManPosted Sep 1, 2011 15:09 UTC (Thu) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167)Parent article: LinuxCon: Mobile network management with ConnMan
Don't tell them that the Ethernet cable is not plugged in
ahahaha.
Because the user is wise, sensible and examines a checklist of common problems before blaming the software, right?
Do you know how many times I have gone "Why don't I have any [look at icon] oh!" ? I would consider this a fairly important oversight, the idea that someone deliberately didn't add this feature because they assume the user will figure it out for themselves well...
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LinuxCon: Mobile network management with ConnMan Posted Sep 1, 2011 21:32 UTC (Thu) by BlueLightning (subscriber, #38978) [Link]
FWIW, the ConnMan DBus API would easily allow you to create a UI that says "Ethernet: disconnected" (or shows the appropriate icon, whatever you prefer.)
LinuxCon: Mobile network management with ConnMan Posted Sep 7, 2011 23:42 UTC (Wed) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]
Excellent... I wasn't the first person to complain about that.
In *fact*, the user isn't sitting in front of it -- it's often on a tower, stuffed under their desk, and the wire broke in a closet on the other end of the floor, where someone was working on a switch.
That status popup sure does save a lot of time in step one: "noticing there's a problem", doesn't it?
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