Netapplet

[Amitabha Roy]

Dan:

Has your patch to HAL appeared ? 

I dont see a new version on rawhide and moreover Build System did
not report it on fedora-devel-list. 

Amitabha


On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:02:28 -0400, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> Ok, I'll take them one-by-one...
> 
> On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 11:16 -0700, Nadeem Bitar wrote:
> > I do not like the layout and the icons.
> 
> The icons are probably going to stay, and our UI guys don't really like
> the layout as much either (the centered wireless networks heading for
> example).  So yes, this may change in the near future.
> 
> > Also I like that with netapplet
> > I can quickly access my connection information and I am able to
> > configure my network settings if netdaemon wasn't able to do it for me.
> 
> What connection information do you wish to configure?  Do you use static
> IP addresses for any of your interfaces?  The point of NetworkManager is
> that you shouldn't _have_ to configure anything.  You don't have to
> configure the wireless networking AT ALL, since what you do is choose
> the wireless network from the menu.  You don't go to the config tools
> and enter in your wireless information, _least_ of all your key since
> NetworkManager should store that key after the first use, and you should
> never have to enter it in again until it changes.
> 
> There is an argument for having a menu item "open config info" that
> launches system-config-network if you have static IP configuration for a
> card, but the fact of static IP is that you aren't supposed to change it
> that often.  So if you don't change it that often, why have an entry for
> it in the menu?  When we get dialup support, there might be an argument
> for having a configure item for those, however.
> 
> > I also like that I have access to both my wired and wireless interfaces.
> 
> How do you mean?  When you only have a wired connection (no wireless
> card plugged in), the applet will hide itself (somewhat debatable, I
> think it should show all the time) since what can you do with your
> network?  If you only have one network connection, that's what you're
> going to use.  You don't need to be able to choose only one choice,
> since that's not a choice.
> 
> If you have both wired _and_ wireless interfaces active at the same
> time, then they should both show up in the menu, and you can explicitly
> click on either a wired network ("Wired network" item), or you can click
> on any of the wireless networks that show up.  There's really no point
> in making the "Wireless Networks" heading clickable, since you never
> "activate"/use a wireless device without connecting to a wireless
> network.
> 
> 
> 
> Dan
> 
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