Re: [system-tools] reg network activate/deactivate

[Carlos Garnacho <carlosg gnome org>]

On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 09:48 -0500, Juan Luis Baptiste wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Quoting Kirti <kirtisinha students iiit net>:
> 
> > hi,
> > i want to discuss the annoying behaviour of network-admin when the
> > devices fail to come up. There is a bug report also on bugzilla
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144203.If u try to activate a
> > device and it doesn't come up due to some reason the chkbox is
> > automatically unchecked. i don't know whether this is the way it's
> > supposed to behave or not but i find it very annoying. There should be
> > simple error msg for the devices which do not come up and a button on
> > which the user can click to get the detail error msg.
> > Kirti
> > 
> > 
> 
> Maybe it's related to the problem I reported here? [1] it doesn´t has to do with
> the GUI, but when the network devices fail to com up.
> 
> [1] http://lists.gnome.org/archives/system-tools-list/2004-July/msg00007.html
> 
> I would love to see this fixed ;)
> 

They're related, but are not the same, yours seems to be a bug, Kirti's
is a side effect of that bug :)

The current problems that cause this are:

- We have a single communication channel with the backend, so if we wait
for a DHCP connection to activate or die, all communication would be
blocked until this request ends

- Any conversation is beginned by the frontend, so the backend cannot do
error reporting without being asked by the frontend

Those issues are unfortunately really hard to fix, maybe could only be
fixed if we move to a more mature RPC system (soap, xmlrpc, ...)

> 
> Cheers,
> --
> Juan Luis Baptiste
> http://knetworkconf.sf.net
> http://www.kalyxo.org
> http://www.merlinux.org
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