captive portal implementation found lacking

David Airlie airlied at redhat.com
Thu Mar 26 01:52:16 UTC 2015


Hey devs,

So Simo wanted to explode so I've tried to distill down the issues we saw:

a: you can't uninstalled the config connectivity package from workstation without losing gnome-shell and gdm.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205963

this seems sub optimal.

b: the feature is over zealous in its letting you know it can't find fp.org

you are sitting there typing, you get a full screen window with some GNOME stuff on it, with no warning
whatsoever. Has your local network crashed? no, fedoraproject.org webserver got outaged or the route
failed over, but you don't get that info, you get a full screen GNOME page.

maybe just indicate in the top corner or pop up a status bar for someone to click on to get the 
full screen page, my desktop is not a tablet

maybe we should be trying to connect to more than one site, and maybe some sites on different networks.

Otherwise I think this feature is a bit half baked as is.

Dave.


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