NetworkManager serious usablity challenges

suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Mon Mar 26 18:17:47 UTC 2012


Hi Olav,

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 19:38, Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 09:07:22AM +0200, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> A major defiency is the loss of deleting SSID configurations.  There
>> is no 'delete' feature anymore in the Network Settings panel.
>
> Not being able to forget wireless networks + not being able to switch of
> wifi while it is still trying to connect + some other problem (I forgot
> exactly what) are known issues.
>
> I think the plan was to redesign this by GNOME 3.6, could be wrong on
> the timeframe though.
>

A quick question out of curiosity, is Gnome 3 using something other
than nm-applet? I don't use Gnome 3 myself[1]. Since this is a rather
common question on the list would be good to know.

[1] An XFCE happy camper since before Gnome 3 was released :)

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Suvayu

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