Re: Control Center App vs nm-connection-editor

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2014-01-09 at 15:52 +1300, Simon Geard wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 09:52 -0600, Dan Williams wrote:
> > In addition to what Pavel said, the GNOME Control Center makes some
> > choices about the UI design and what to include and what to leave out
> > that are quite appropriate for the GNOME design and target audience.
> > Same for KDE.  nm-connection-editor exists to expose most options (but
> > not necessarily all of them) in a more complicated form, and is intended
> > to be either a parallel tool to each desktop's preferred settings
> > panels, or a standalone one for desktops that don't have any other
> > settings editor.
>
> One thing I noted the other day is that the Gnome UI doesn't support
> setting up connection sharing (i.e configuring the machine as a gateway,
> running a DHCP server, etc. Had to resort to nm-connection-editor for
> that.

It does for creation of a WiFi Hotspot, which will then have access to
your upstream ISP (whether over ethernet, WWAN, etc).  But it doesn't
AFAIK support connection sharing between arbitrary connections.

Dan