Frank Ludolph wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> Calum Benson wrote:
>>> True, might be worth adding the network monitor applet back to the
>>> default config. (It will be replaced when the NWAM Phase 1 GUI is
>>> complete, but that's not going to land in time for the May release
>>> AFAIK.)
>>>
>>
>> Though someday people will want to run Sun Rays on OpenSolaris, and
>> network monitor on Sun Ray is still a waste of bandwidth (is there
>> network traffic? yes? let's flash the icon! what? that generated
>> network traffic sending the icon change to the Sun Ray for display?
>> flash it again! infinite feedback loop? what's that?)
>>
>>
> I'm going to disagree on SunRay being a consideration about how the
> desktop is configured by default.
There are ways to make the system do the right thing for both classes
of users - only show it by default on display :0 for instance (though
the upcoming virtual terminals support means that :1 and up can be on
console as well, as do things like Xnest & Xephyr - even then I don't
think you want the network icon flashing in every running X server).
For the laptop/desktop user, my concern with the network applet would
be more of it being more intelligent about which interface to show,
since in past releases I've often had to change it because it chose the
wrong one (on a laptop, wired vs. wireless - on a desktop, port 0 vs.
port 1, etc.) - tighter integration with NWAM to show whichever
interface NWAM has activated, including autoswitching when you
plug/unplug the network cable on your laptop, would help here.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
