On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 21:25 -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > On Thursday 04 January 2007 9:21 pm, Dave Jones wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:18:00PM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > > > > I'm not sure this is the right answer - it's certainly the wrong > > > > question to be asking the user in general. For the cases that NM hits > > > > now, we'd want to fix any cases that would cause people to want to > > > > switch to ifup, at least. > > > > > > I think the right Answer is to make NM cover all cases. > > > > The biggest hurdle afaics, is that NM treats a network connection > > as a per-user thing rather than a system wide thing. > > Having to log in before you can use the network is busted. > according to the TODO list for 0.7 working before you log in is one of the > goals. Which will help when using network authentication. It would be nice if NM supported profiles too. Like "Home" and "Office" where it sets up /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf to be what you'd want for the two different networks. Maybe that isn't one of the goals, but it'd make moving around a hell of a lot easier. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
