Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams

Posted Feb 26, 2008 12:57 UTC (Tue) by Frej (guest, #4165)
In reply to: Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams by crackmonkey
Parent article: Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams

Does this cause a problem as user or as an administrator?
Or
When does the backend cause a problem for you?

Not intended as flamebait.

Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams

Posted Feb 26, 2008 15:17 UTC (Tue) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link] (4 responses)

As a user. But the backend is only incidental to the problem, which is that in the current
(pre 1.0, note) implementation, there's no user interface for editing known connections, so
your only recourse is to dive into gconf-editor.

When there is a good control interface, it won't matter how to users awkward the backend is
for the job.

Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams

Posted Feb 26, 2008 15:32 UTC (Tue) by Frej (guest, #4165) [Link] (2 responses)

I agree that storing state in gconf is wrong/suboptimal ;)
But I personally haven't had the need for editing stored connections.
When would this be needed?

Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams

Posted Feb 26, 2008 16:49 UTC (Tue) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link] (1 responses)

What if you don't want a given connection to try to autoconnect?

Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams

Posted Feb 26, 2008 17:01 UTC (Tue) by dcbw (guest, #50562) [Link]

bclark and I have played with adding a button to the notification bubbles when you're
connected to say things like "don't automatically connect me ever again" and such.  I think
there's a lot of room to use the notification bubbles more to save users clicks rather than
having to run to the connection editor in the right-click menu.

Interview with NetworkManager developer Dan Williams

Posted Feb 26, 2008 16:30 UTC (Tue) by dcbw (guest, #50562) [Link]

Both 0.7 and 0.6.6 (to be released in a week or two) include a GUI connection editor that
allows you to delete connections stored in GConf.