Re: blocking bug for laptop users

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 20:03 +0000, yelo_3 wrote:
> it is blocking because people using a hotkey to switch of/off
> wireless, will see a different status in the applet:
> - the hotkey toggles wireless using the dbus method setWirelessEnabled
> - the applet does not update itself, so the user who disables
> wireless, will see in the applet that wireless is enabled, and the
> exact list of wireless network that were active before he had hit the
> hotkey

That's not the right way to do it, especially as some "hotkeys" act
directly on the hardware. The correct way to do it is:
- have HAL do get/set on the hardware (either using custom APIs for each
models, like already implemented for Dells, or the generic kernel rfkill
API)
- Make NetworkManager handle the get/set from the hardware

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>