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

[Jerry Jaskierny <jaskiern channelsix org>]

Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> said:

> 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.  I didn't see a benefit for it either and just
assumed the loose ends hadn't been tied up.  Removing that
functionality sounds ideal to me.

-- 
Jerry Jaskierny