On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > 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.
It's a daemon that runs in background... an connects before any user has logged in. Pretty much what you want, han? >> >> This means that if for some reason you are stuck in the console, you have no >> running network. Well... even with network manager it's possible to say to connect before user logs in too. But I don't remember how. >> 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. As said, this is what connman does. And the connman's module in e17 acts only as a front-end. Lucas De Marchi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
