On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 07:33:31PM +0530, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 04 avril 2011 à 10:39 -0300, Ben Armstrong a écrit : > > But the average laptop user really does have a hard time with the > > status quo. Something needs to change in the next release. > > I think squeeze already does a lot better, but there is still work to > do, especially with the installation process. > > On my personal wishlist for wheezy is d-i actually calling NM behind the > scenes to configure the network, instead of ifupdown. I’ll definitely > try to find time to hack on this.
I'm not well-familiar with NM. I'm more familiar with wicd. I do feel NM has some shortcomings for my habits: (Please feel free to correct me where I'm factually incorrect. I probably am) It does have system-global config file. But the settings are not expected to be there. By default the settings are expected to be in the user directory (has this changed since 0.8?). So I won't easily find it when I want to e.g. change configuration as root. This is unlike wicd that keeps everything under /etc/wicd . The configuration file is a simple, readable and intiutive text file (ini-file. No XML or such nonsense). Some documentation and examples would help. What bothers me, though, is that each entry requires a unique identifier field. Which makes it all too easy to make copy&paste errors. The command-line interface (nmcli) seems to be rather usable from the little I have played with it. Another issue I have had with it in the past is debugging. At least in my experince, troubleshooting generally invloved killing the service and restarting it in "debug mode". Which is something I would not really like to instruct a newb. I hope there are better ways to debug it without killing it. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110404173815.ge26...@pear.tzafrir.org.il
