Re: A comment on NetworkManager

[Dawid Wróbel <dawid klej net>]

On Fri, 12 May 2006 10:29:38 -0400 Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>
wrote:

> I think the right approach here is to make things like the applet
> simple, but provide (a) complex configuration in another application,
> and (b) a rich (and well documented!) DBUS interface.  The applet then
> becomes the simple interface, but if you want to tinker with the
> details then you are certainly able to.

I second that in 100%. I see no point why wouldn't NM itself provide
some more options and let the applet to just show the minimum of this.
We could even let people to do something like guessnet (mac detecting
etc.) in an "advanced mode" or sth., so that even when on a static ip
network NM would be able to automatically detect it without asking the
user to choose a profile. Moreover, couldn't NM on a static IP network,
once given the details of the gateway IP, check its MAC and then each
time on this network, detect it automatically? This would reduce the
profiles to the minimum. Obviously user would have to be able to change
these details in some applet dialog in case these have changed, and
then NM would recheck the MAC address.

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  Dawid Wróbel				mailto:dawid klej net