Re: Network Manager Editor's "Last Used" functionality

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 23:03 -0700, Jerry Jaskierny wrote:
> I upgraded to Ubuntu's Hardy Heron beta within the past few
> days.  This upgraded included the Network Manager Editor --
> congratulations on the completion of a very useful tool!
> 
> Upon perusal of this new tool, I found 2 fields that confused
> me:  the Last Used fields for date and time.  I anticipate
> that these fields would be updated automatically (by the Network
> Manager, not the user?) to the last time a person logged on to
> (or logged off) that network.  But I see users have the ability
> to set these fields with a button labelled "Calendar" for the
> date and a drop-down type list for times.
> 
> I see no documentation for this functionality on the Network
> Manager website[1], nothing in the applications "Help" section,
> nor a mention of it in the Network Manager mailing list archive.
> Is my idea of how this functionality works correct?  If so, what
> benefitted utility does the user gain from these?  If not, can
> someone explain the functionality of these items for which they
> were designed?

I think the original writers of the tool were just exposing everything
in GConf :)  I think you're right, there really isn't a good use-case
for exposing that control.  If there aren't reasonable, strenuous
objections, I'll remove it for the next release.

Thanks,
Dan