Repeat post

[Bastien Nocera]

----- Original Message -----
> On Fri, 2015-08-07 at 10:56 +0930, Andrew Walton wrote:
> > Please make this topic part of your discussions, there's a lot more
> > people living in rural areas than you might think.
> 
> I see this as a problem that needs to be solved, but I will be blunt:
> somebody has to be interested in implementing it, and I am not sure
> anybody is.
> 
> I think the right place to add a new setting is the network panel: you
> should be able to mark a particular connection as being bandwidth
> -limited.

This is bug:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745747

And is only likely to be implemented for GNOME 3.20 (hopefully early in the
cycle so that we can make changes to the applications to respect that
setting).

> Then at the *very least* that should be used to turn off
> automatic checks for updates, since we get complaints about that from
> bandwidth-limited users quite frequently. I am not sure if we want to
> take the route of using the firewall to prevent applications from
> accessing the network; it seems reasonable since it would require
> toggling a hard-to-find setting, but some design work would be needed
> to make the prompts work well.

Using a firewall to avoid applications downloading anything is something
that you need to use on Windows because there's no way to fix the Windows
applications. Applications shipped by Fedora can be though...