Re: Control Center App vs nm-connection-editor

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sun, 2014-01-12 at 18:16 +0530, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote:
> Hi
> On 10 Jan 2014 01:45, "Dan Williams" <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> > 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
>
> I believe, this currently limited to ad hoc.

I posted patches for real AP mode a while back, which I believe is part
of GNOME 3.6 and later.

Dan