On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 16:45 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: >> Maybe a wifi connection login dialog needs a checkbox to indicate >> whether it's a metered connection. Because however it's supposed to >> work, isn't reliable in the real world. > > Yeah, this is basically my conclusion. I strongly doubt it'll ever be > possible to achieve an acceptable level of magic detection here. Even > connections that aren't *tethered* could certainly have data transfer > caps for one reason or another. Just assuming you can go ahead and > download as many GB of updates as you like without any kind of prior > warning or even notification while the download is ongoing is a really > bad idea. Yeah I don't have a great solution for this other than literally bugging the user and asking at each initial connection. Maybe it's plausible to not do this for wired connections? I'll get crotchety if I plug in a wired connection but don't get a network and internet connection straight away. But then I also get crotchety when, upon a clean installation, Fedora sucks down a gig worth of updates in the first 5-10 minutes (Windows and macOS do not do this, they ask). But at a certain point down the road, I do want such updates and to not be bothered. So the only thing I can think of is actively notifying the user of the current behavior and inviting them to change it, rather than it just being passive and murky. So maybe something in g-i-s for the initial inform and consent? And then a checkbox in wireless connect dialogs? -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
