Re: Feature proposal: combined system status menu

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2013-04-22 at 16:01 +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> 2013/4/22 Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>:
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> > I also think that we'll need to have more applications, and "desktop
> > daemons" making use of GNetworkMonitor to check whether they have access
> > to the Internet before trying to access resources.
>
> Yes, but as always, we can't control everything users are running on
> their desktop.

Certainly, but this kernel feature should be able to tell us which
application requested network access without checking for its presence,
and it's a fair feature request to ensure that network resources aren't
accessed if the network isn't available.

This is especially important for applications that run without a UI, or
access the network without user interaction. There's a few in GNOME
itself, I'm not sure there's that many third-party daemons of the sort
in a typical GNOME desktop.

Allan, do we have recommendations for application and OS developers on
how to handle network availability?

This would be a great first bug fix for a number of contributors, though
I doubt that a "GNOME Goal" would catch all the instances.