On Sun, 2016-10-30 at 10:20 +0100, drago01 wrote: > On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 2:26 AM, Adam Williamson > <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi folks! > > > > I kinda hate kicking off discussions like this without having a solid > > solution to propose or being able to promise to work on one, but this > > really seems important. Unfortunately I can't claim I'm gonna have time > > to do any concrete work on it, though I'd really *like* to. But I > > thought it would be worthwhile to kick around still; perhaps someone > > else will be inspired. > > We should make use of this: > > "We now expose information on whether a particular connection is > metered. It’s intended for tools like package managers that like > pre-fetch large amount of data to be able to avoid increasing your > Mobile connectivity bills." [1] So far as I can see, this isn't exposed in nm-connection-editor yet; it needs to be, as probably auto-detection of metered connections can never be perfect. But yeah, it seems like the obvious place to start. >From the discussions I just looked up it looks like this feature actually started in Software and got pushed 'down the stack' into NM, so I expect Software already supports it; I don't know if dnf does, though. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
