On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 07:59 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 13 May 2011 22:57:48 -0700 > Adam Williamson wrote: > > > It's a *temporary workaround*. the GNOME 3 network configuration tools > > are not feature complete yet, so we keep the old one around to cover > > things that aren't finished. > > But it doesn't look like the old tool to me. The old tool I used > to be able to find is the one now buried in the "Other" category. That's what I'm talking about. > I've never seen the (yes, it is utterly useless, no smiley) tool > the network item in the control panel pops up. It has an "Options..." > button that is always disabled, and if you could press it, it > would bring up what I would call the old tool. Whether it's a) present and b) enabled depends on what you have highlighted in the left-hand pane, and the state of that connection. > This control panel network app is not useful for 80-90% of normal > network connections, because 80-90% of normal network connections > are automatically configured by DHCP, just work, and need no config > tool at all. It is the 10-20% that don't get auto configured where > you need the tool, and the one in the control panel is in fact > utterly worthless for them. The Options button is enabled for me on my wired connection, and would allow me to configure a static connection if I wanted to. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
