On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, David Zeuthen wrote:
Clearly NM has the brains to do this itself and perhaps it should, at
least when running battery. That's part of the point why we're making NM
the single entity that controls networking. Sure, this leaves all the
uhm people who like to configure their system to the last bit out in the
cold but as pointed out repeatedly their are not the main audience for
NM [1].
As a general rule of thumbwWe should never invent options when we can do
the right thing automatically. Vote no on the "disable networking"
proposition.
Presumably, it would power down wireless when connected by wire? Are
there other cases where you might want both? There are certainly cases
where you would want neither, even when in range of a WAP. And of
course, if I don't have wire, but I'm running on battery, I may want
wireless anyway.
I'm having a bit of trouble imagining a state diagram that doesn't have
at least one human-activated switch in it.