On Fri, 13 May 2011 20:04:51 +0200 Sven Luther <s...@z-innov.com> said:

> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 09:56:45PM +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> > sure! :) dont get me wrong. the connman ui works right now.. just for very
> > simple/limited use. i know that it cant do EVERY esoteric thing people need
> > or want day 1, but.. it should cover most real life needs because people
> > really NEED their network and if they cant set it up in e.. they will go
> > somewhere else. :)
> 
> Just a quick thought about GUIs and network configuration. 
> 
> One thing i hate with the gnome network configuration GUI, at least the
> version installed on my desktop system, is that it will wait until you bring
> up the GUI before configuring the network, and i don't know how connman works.
> 
> This means that if for some reason you are stuck in the console, you have no
> running network.
> 
> So, if it is not already the case, i think it would be quite nice to have a
> network configuration tool which acts as front end to a tool which can run in
> the background, and configures the network, independently of if the GUI is
> running or not.
> 
> A bit like the quark audio player used to work ...

that's a bit out of scope for e17's todo and more a question for the connman
developers. (which is all that the e17 connman module is a front end to). sure
- we could write command-line clients too, but it's a distraction to getting
*E17* out.


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