> -----Original Message----- > From: sugar-devel-boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto:sugar-devel- > boun...@lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Sascha Silbe > Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 4:49 AM > To: Jerry Vonau > Cc: Ardito; sugar-devel; dr.ger...@xo15-sascha.sascha.silbe.org; James > Cameron; OLPC Devel > Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [Server-devel] Hidden SSID and Proxy settings > > Excerpts from Jerry Vonau's message of Mon Mar 07 09:51:30 +0100 2011: > > > Yes, think that would be a good idea, with this method connections.cfg > > can be empty. Perhaps network.py can just use/create the needed file > > for /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ or make that an option > > available in control panel. > > Using system instead of user settings in Sugar has been planned for some time > now [1], but I didn't get around to working on it. > > The first beta of NetworkManager 0.9 has been released [2] a few days ago. As > of that version, the distinction between system and user settings is gone for > good [3], so it makes more sense to migrate [4] to > 0.9 right away instead of moving to system settings first. > > As part of the 0.9 migration I'd like us to show configured connections in > addition to the currently visible access points. This should help users > working in > less-than-perfect environments (disabled beacons, VPNs, access points on > different sites that need different credentials but have the same SSID, etc.). > > We should also try to move our Ad Hoc auto-connect logic into > NetworkManager. Not only would it make our code simpler and easier to debug, > but non-Sugar users would benefit from the automatic "under the tree" > networking as well. Even Mac OS X seems to have something similar to > automatic Ad Hoc networking + link-local collaboration now (called AirDrop > [5]).
Have you thought about the resources you need to complete this and when it might land? This is a critical task which is asked for by every deployment. david > Sascha > > [1] https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1884 > [2] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2011- > March/msg00020.html > [3] http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/ApiSimplify > [4] http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/migrating-to-09/ > [5] http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/ > -- > http://sascha.silbe.org/ > http://www.infra-silbe.de/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel