feature request: event log viewer

[Dave Mitchell <davem iabyn com>]

A feature  I would personally like to see is some sort of mini event log
window that can be displayed from the nm-applet. It would have an entry
for every time a connection was taken down or tried to be brought up, and
would also show the reason, e.g. something like:

    12:30 resume after suspend
    12:01 connected to foo2
    12:01 trying foo2
    12:01 disconnecting from eth0: ethernet cable detached
    11:50 connected to eth0
    11:50 disconnecting from foo2: ethernet cable attached
    11:40 connected to foo2
    11:40 trying foo2
    11:40 failed to connect to foo1: WEP authentication failed
    11:40 trying foo1
    11:40 startup

Currently the 'user experience' is that NM seems to randomly try to
connect to various things, and sometimes silently fails. And sometimes
randomly disconnects again. Having to wade through /var/log/messages isn't
really the answer.

Ideally it would also show *why* it chose a particular AP.

Just MHO etc,

Dave.

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