Re: Adding network awareness to parts of gnome

[Alex Jones <alex weej com>]

On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 12:23 +0100, Guillaume Desmottes wrote:
> On dim, 2006-12-10 at 18:14 -0500, Jon Nettleton wrote:
> > While testing the configuration daemon I figured out what really annoys
> > me the most.  My gweather applet starts before nm-applet, so it never
> > has the weather when I first log into my desktop.  I always have to do a
> > manual update  (grrr the thought infuriates me).  This all finally leads
> > me to my real point and question.  I was tired of this behavior, so I
> > added dbus functionality to the gweather applet so it could figure out
> > when it could get updates.  I was going to post my patch to bugzilla,
> > but I wondered if there was a greater plan for enabling this
> > functionality in relevant apps?  If so I won't bother.
> > 
> 
> I agree with you, network experience would really rocks if all our
> applications was NM aware.
> 
> I suppose if the release team accept NM for 2.18, we'll start work to
> add support in all apps. Maybe a wiki page like for GNOME goals or
> something could be useful for that work.

Rock.

My computer goes apeshit when I lose connection. Rhythmbox whines it
can't download podcasts, Evolution goes a bit dippy timing out mail
transfer requests, and yes, the Weather Applet screws up.

NM for 2.18 without a doubt.

> 
> 	G.
>