Re: A comment on NetworkManager

[chris smolyk <nessmuk interbaun com>]

My profound thanks to you both, (and to others I will find on this thread
as I catch up on my reading.) for opening this thread.
While I go into my Ubuntu and run the updates that are always waiting,
my hopes that whatever is totally _not_ working with nm will begin working
are regularly dashed.
Since I have the box connected by cable to a router with numerous other
boxes on the internal network, and have netatalk working to connect with
my main Mac, I assume I qualify for having some kind of network there
for nm to read. Since my first question has been answered, (Yes, it is not
limited to wireless. And why is this info so difficult to obtain?)
I will gingerly tiptoe to my next one.

"Is this software meant only for laptops?" (Is that why this NM icon sits in
my menubar, taunting me with it's deceptively, almost Apple-like look
of simplicity....because it secretly KNOWS it won't work on a desktop
box.....but it is actually a FEMALE and perversely enjoys my torment
and humiliation too much to tell me that!?)

"Is there something I'm supposed to DO....or KNOW.....to get this thing
started?"

Replies to my personal email most heartily welcomed.

chriss


> Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 02:48:38 +0200
> From: "Peter Roediger" <p roediger gmail com>
> Subject:
> Hi everyone,
> I thought I should write a little -personal- comment on what I think about
> the current implementation of NetworkManager and, more importantly, its
> design goals.
>As Einstein said: "Everything should be
> made as simply as possible, but not simpler".
> This is going to be a great application, but it should be feature-complete.
> It's relatively easy to hide more complicated things in an "Advanced..."
> menu or something like that. But dropping features just because the 85-year
> old grandma will not understand what it is, is not the right way out.
> Cheers, Peter

From: Russell Harrison <rtlm10 gmail com>
Date: May 10, 2006 11:20 PM
Subject: Re: A comment on NetworkManager
Very well written.  I'd like to second everything you've said.
NetworkManager is very frustrating to work with.  I only use it because I
feel like its got some real potential and somebody needs to find the bugs.
I am continually in a love hate relationship with the "simplicity" of the
interface.  Right now its so simple I don't see how any layperson could
understand it, there just isn't any feed back or direction, and the things
you expect to see aren't there.