Re: different icons if internet is available

[Derek Atkins <warlord MIT EDU>]

I wouldn't mind a different icon for "I hear wifi networks".  I.e., when
I'm not connected but NM hears wifi, it could show a different icon than
when I'm disconnected and it DOESN'T hear wifi.  THAT would be useful
to me.

-derek

Quoting Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>:

> Captive portals for Wifi also make this really, really hard.  I'm not
> necessarily opposed to it, but I feel like it's something that shouldn't
> be in NM itself, but in a plugin of some sort so people can use it if
> they want to.
>
> The problem with this sort of check is that it makes various people
> really angry.  It makes admins angry, because it's essentially (to them)
> useless traffic, and what happens when you have 100 machines with NM on
> them with this enabled?  It makes some users angry because NM is
> generating useless (to them) traffic because they already know.  It's
> also a really hard problem to determine if you actually _are_ on the
> internet due to captive portals, firewalls, NATs, etc.  So in the end,
> it shouldn't be on by default.
>
> Dan

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