Re: gnome-netstatus branched



Perhaps naming each connection:

"Network attached to D-Link DFE-530X"

?

and for PPP networks:

"Dial-up network"

?

El jue, 18-03-2004 a las 09:19, Havoc Pennington escribió:
> On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 04:16, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 	So I've created a gnome-2-6 branch of gnome-netstatus.
> > 
> > 	Plans for 2.8 are roughly:
> > 
> >   + Improve wireless support. I added support for showing the signal 
> >     strength yesterday but Calum has a nice UI spec which has some ideas
> >     around selecting networks, entering WEP keys and so on. Hopefull 
> >     we'll be able to do some of that stuff.
> > 
> >   + Improve the behaviour for people who regularily switch between 
> >     network devices - e.g. people who use a modem at home and then eth0 
> >     at work or a wireless eth1 at home and wired eth0 at work. Right now
> >     you have have to manually select the device in the dialog but it 
> >     should be easy to just intelligently pick an active device.
> > 
> 
> It'd be cool to use some kind of human-readable device names rather than
> eth0/eth1 - if only "Network Connection 1", "Network Connection 2"
> perhaps. Windows uses the name of the hardware, maybe queried from PCI
> or something. Or you could do things like "Wireless Connection", "LAN
> Connection", etc. Don't know.
> 
> Havoc
> 
> 
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