low-hanging fruit

[Colin Walters]

On 8/20/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
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> I don't suspend when walking away because I don't want my wireless to
> drop, I don't want to have to re-login to say t-mobile hot-spot,


Yeah, sigh...these wifi browser prompts completely destroy the user
experience for so many applications.  My personal favorite is starting
Firefox, clicking "Resume session" and getting 15 redirected login tabs.

Long term I hope we can figure out some way to make that suck less.  I don't
have any good ideas right now about how to detect the situation initially.

That said though, maybe if we only suspend for say the time it takes to go
to the bathroom (~2 minutes) it might not toss you back at that prompt.  I'm
not sure how that works - if it authorizes your MAC address for X minutes or
whether it's "DHCP request implies prompt".  In the latter case we might be
able to fix NetworkManager to save its DHCP lease if it's within the lease
time still and not do another request on unsuspend if it's the same network.
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