Joel Goguen wrote: > I have a need for it, and I imagine it's a common one. I have a > wireless network at home, and I put the laptop to sleep and head to my > university. When I get there, I have to wait sometimes minutes for > the list to refresh and my campus network to appear so NM can attempt > to connect to it. Or I can open a terminal and manually restart NM, > but that's not something a common user should be expected to do IMO. > When I first get to campus I still see all the networks I can see from > my house, even though none of them are anywhere near the campus. > After a few minutes of waiting, during which I'm checking the applet > list at least once every 30 seconds, the list finally refreshes and NM > connects to my campus network. This doesn't seem very user-friendly > to me. >
What distro are you using? I put my laptop to sleep between work and home and it connects to each network right away when it wakes up. I've never had a problem, both with Fedora 6 and 7. > > On 10/11/07, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 18:08 +0300, Joan B. Moreau wrote: >> >>> Ok, but it is just a pain in the *ss this bug, and everybody complains. >>> >>> Please, rather than saying "I disagree", maybe propose an alternative, >>> because it is really annoying bug. >>> >> We already discussed alternatives on this list. First, NM should scan >> quite quickly after dropping the menu down, as long as NM has not >> scanned within the last 20 seconds. Currently that may not be the case, >> it might push off the scan for 20 seconds. This is a case of a bug that >> should be fixed (if it exists). >> >> Furthermore, I don't believe that it's that much of a burden to check >> the menu twice. Can you refresh my memory as to what situations >> explicitly scanning for networks is necessary? The applet should be >> kept simple, additional functionality that doesn't fit in the applet can >> certainly be farmed out to other tools that are not the applet or NM. >> The applet should cover 90% of all users needs 90% of the time. It >> should _not_ cover 100% of all users needs 100% of the time. There are >> some features that just won't be implemented. I believe explicitly scan >> requests fit in that last 10%. I may be able to be convinced otherwise. >> >> Dan >> >> >>> Thanks in advance >>> >>> Dan Williams wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 17:20 +0300, Joan B. Moreau wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> I know this has been posted and discussed already, but this bug is *so* >>>>> annoying, that I guess I am not the only "simple user" having troubles >>>>> with that. >>>>> >>>>> Would it be possible to fix it ? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I still don't agree that this is the right way to solve the issue. >>>> >>>> Dan >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Thanks a lot >>>>> >>>>> JM >>>>> >>>>> Joan B. Moreau wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>> >>>>>> I like the applet but here my request in terms of ergonomy: >>>>>> >>>>>> Would it be possible to stop triggering a scan when clicking on the >>>>>> applet (which people do quite frequently to see the available networks) >>>>>> but rather put a menu item "scan for available networks" that we can >>>>>> click when one decide so ? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks >>>>>> >>>>>> Joan >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> NetworkManager-list mailing list >>>>> NetworkManager-list@gnome.org >>>>> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetworkManager-list mailing list >> NetworkManager-list@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
