David Zeuthen wrote:
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 15:26 -0700, Denis Leroy wrote:
Elliot Lee wrote:
Maybe it's time to start the brainstorming for Fedora Core 5 and Fedora
Extras 5 - what major features are you willing to put effort into?
I'd like to see better laptop support, in particular some sort of
Profile support as well as better wireless support. Currently to have my
laptop work both at home and at work (in dual mode), i have to hack
rc.sysinit horribly to extend the semantic of the 'netprofile=' kernel
argument so that it also changes the Xorg.conf file, .gconf files, and
so on.... Also, system-config-network is still an incredibly
counter-intuitive and confusing tool.
With good hardware [1], NetworkManager works very very well these days.
I expect this to become even better with FC5 (I believe nowadays you
need to manually add /usr/libexec/nm-applet to your startup programs in
GNOME... :-/)
Cheers,
David
Looks like a very nice wireless tool. But by the time i get to the desktop
login window, i.e. way before NetworkManager comes into play, it's WAY to late
to make decisions about profiles: my laptop at work wants eth0 to come up on
boot, because it wants things such as nfs-mounted home directories, ntpd,
dual-screen Xorg.conf and so on. For example, booting my laptop at home in
work profile will result in a boot time of 10 MINUTES for all the stupid
startup scripts to time out and fail and a pretty unusable system. So this is
where we're really lacking imho.
-denis
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