Re: Request for ergonomy feature

[Joan Moreau <joan moreau m4x org>]

The point is not to do it by oneself or by the pc, but one may click 
several time on the icon to see the status of the discovery which 
trigger a new search and that does not end , while having to click once 
on a button let people be able to see the current list of network 
without "risking" to trigger a new search.


Christopher Aillon wrote:
> Greg Oliver wrote:
>   
> > On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 09:08 +0200, Soren Hansen wrote:
> >     
> > > Could one of you perhaps explain to me why you want to do something
> > > manually that network-manager does for you automatically? I don't quite
> > > get it.
> > >       
> > Honestly, so my LED does not blink repeatedly
> >     
>
> You'll have others blinking anyway.  Hard disk, etc.
>
>   
> > - as well as go back to a
> > previous request to have wired/wireless active simultaneously (I know
> > thats coming).  In that situation, that would be most pleasant.  My
> > radio would not be scanning constantly when I do not need it and I could
> > scan when I want them both on.
> >     
>
> And if your wired ever dies out?  Or if you need to move for some reason 
> and need to unplug?  Do you want NetworkManager to just sit there for 
> you to realize what happened, then click the applet, then click perform 
> scan, wait for a few seconds, figure out which Network, and then connect 
> you to wireless?
>
> Personally, I'd rather my music stream keep on playing.  The whole point 
> of NetworkManager is to do the work for you.  People that don't want it 
> to do the work still have iwconfig/iwlist.
>
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