Re: Proposal: NetworkManager for GNOME 2.18.



On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 13:13 +0100, Carlos Garnacho wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 10:30 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > <quote who="Dan Williams">
> > 
> > > If it's a priority, it can certainly be done.
> > 
> > I don't think this is wildly important - it'll just increase maintainership
> > requirements for you unnecessarily.
> > 
> > What we do need, however, is some kind of co-operation between NM and the
> > GNOME System Tools or other network configuration tools. This may involve
> > replacing network-admin entirely (and have better fallbacks for non-Linux
> > systems or crappy wifi chipsets when using NM).
> 
> Separated as they are, there are things to improve in both concepts, and
> users would be certainly happy to be able to manage things from both
> feature sets, so it makes much sense to integrate.
> 
> If the plan were to ditch network-admin, I'd recommend at least using
> liboobs as the "safe" fallback, it already manages static configuration
> for ethernet and wireless interfaces for many Unices quite reliably, and
> other desirable stuff.

additional rant , nm does not handle the below correctly.

* static ip 
* multiple n/w profile

> 
> If we don't ditch network-admin, what about a "enable roaming mode"
> checkbox that deconfigures the wifi interface and lets NM do its job?
> 
> Regards,
> 	Carlos
> 
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