On Thu, 2 Jan 2014, Timothy Murphy wrote:
What has happened to Network Management Settings in recent versions of NM? Right clicking on the NM icon (in Fedora-20/KDE) brings up an unintelligible (to me) window with 4 arrows whose function I do not understand. Also NM is bringing up small "activation/deactivation" windows that seem to persist indefinitely unless manually closed. I wish there were an alternative to NM which worked as well as the old Windows "Connect to". Basically, I would like a small map showing available access points, with the last point accessed chosen by default. Clicking on one of the other access points would indicate if an encryption key is needed, and if so would offer a text area to allow this to be entered. There used to be something like this in NM (not as simple as Windows but at least usable), but this seems to have disappeared. In my view NM is ludicrously over-complicated, and steadily getting more complicated as more and more "features" are added. I would like a program that just deals with WiFi and does not bother with ethernet, VPN, mobile phones, etc, all of which in my experience work perfectly well with or without NM. "A program should do one thing, and do it well."
Yeah, I don't like it either. I think it's all part of this general movement to make things "easier" and "user friendly" through removing options and control from the user. I have little doubt that in a few more iterations, you'll be seeing a Windows 7/8-like "Troubleshoot" button, and if that doesn't work, you are just screwed. billo -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
