Re: ppp support naming

[Will Stephenson <wstephenson kde org>]

On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Bastien Nocera said:
> On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 08:56 +0100, Will Stephenson wrote:
> > On Monday 03 March 2008 19:38:23 Tambet Ingo wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Vitja Makarov
> > > <vitja makarov gmail com>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > >  I see it in the tree but I don't see it works, correct me if i'm
> > > > wrong.
> > >
> > > It works for GSM and CDMA.
> >
> > As far as I know, GSM and CDMA are instances of certain classes of
> > cellular networks, but GSM and CDMA themselves are not used globally.
> >
> > If I 'm right in this, it would make sense to internally name this
> > support something generic, like 2GCellular and 3GCellular and then the
> > GUI can sort out whether it refers to it as "CDMA" in EN_us or "3G" in
> > EN_gb or "UMTS" in de.  The flipside is users doing a "CDMA wtf?" when
> > they try to use their cellular card.
>
> They're different protocols, and use different command sets. And those
> strings don't appear in the UI either.

Does that mean that we need extra development to support HDSPA/UTMS networks?  
Does "CDMA" in NetworkManager only literally support CDMA networks?

If that's the case, obviously the API naming is fine as is.  Otherwise we 
should make it more generic.

Will