Re: has anyone had a chance to look at my nm-applet patch?

["Katelin Ganzer" <katelin ganzer gmail com>]

On 10/31/07, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 20:40 -0400, Katelin Ganzer wrote:
> > On 10/29/07, Katelin Ganzer <katelin ganzer gmail com> wrote:
> > > I was thinking that if the developers are opposed to having the
> > > channel displayed inside the progress bar, that maybe they would be
> > > okay with displaying a nicely formatted tooltip with a bunch of useful
> > > info?
>
> Like KNetworkManager :)  I'm not overly fond of their implementation,
> which I feel crams way too much questionably important info into the
> tooltip, but putting a few details into a tooltip like you've done here
> might be useful.

=)

>
> However, there's one big caveat with 0.6.x.  APs are aggregated based on
> SSID, and therefore if you have two APs on channel 1 and channel 6,
> you'll only see one AP in the menu.  That's mostly by design.  Where
> 0.6.x gets it wrong is because it aggregates _too_ much (0.7 fixes
> this).  So the problem here is that you _can't_ really show the mode,
> the channel, the band, or the BSSID because you only get that
> information from one randomly selected BSSID of the entire SSID.
>
> I was under the impression that a patch like this would be useful
> precisely due to situations where there were a number of APs with the
> same SSID but different channels or security, which 0.6.x really won't
> let you separate in the applet... :(

Oh. What should I do? Should I wait for 0.7 and rewrite my patch for that?

I'm not sure what I should do

Katie