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<p>Personally, I'm more inclined to a checkbox. Why is "turn wifi on/off" not an action? Right now, I don't see the big difference.</p>
<p>Is the new "hotspot" equivalent to the "shared wifi", you can already set up? <br />
If so, without really reading the patch details yet, just some remarks or ideas:</p>
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<li class="remarkup-list-item">If you have configured several hotspots in the KCM, you probably need to choose a default one or a specific one when activating the hotspot.</li>
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<p>This is meant to be as simple as possible, allowing users to create a hotspot without needing them to know the details. On Android you also don't get to choose.</p>
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<li class="remarkup-list-item">What do you think about adding a small configure button for the default hotspot directly on the plasma-nm frontend next to the hotspot checkbox/button?<ul class="remarkup-list">
<li class="remarkup-list-item">That would make it much easier for newcomers to use and configure their hotspot without first digging in the KCM.</li>
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<li class="remarkup-list-item">I also think that a hotspot (shared wifi) connection should be better separated from the other wifi connections in the KCM. If I create a new hotspot in the KCM now, it hides in the long list of known connections.</li>
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<p>I will probably use a new icon for this. I will need to request it.</p>
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<li class="remarkup-list-item">That's somehow also true for the plasma-nm list of available networks: It's not really clear that a hotspot in the list is a indeed hotspot but not another access point.</li>
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<p>Same here. A different icon should be enough.</p>
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<p>Is this also true if one has two wifi network cards? IIRC I could run both with an additional usb netwok card simultaneously.</p></blockquote>
<p>In case of multiple wifi cards we will choose the one which is not in use. Still any wifi card makes this option available, even if it's in use.</p>
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<p><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/p/jgrulich/" style="
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<p>I don't think NetworkManager provides this information.</p></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R116 Plasma Network Management Applet</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D26392">https://phabricator.kde.org/D26392</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>jgrulich, Plasma, ngraham, VDG<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>alexde, mthw, apol, plasma-devel, LeGast00n, The-Feren-OS-Dev, jraleigh, zachus, fbampaloukas, GB_2, ragreen, ZrenBot, ngraham, alexeymin, himcesjf, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, ahiemstra, mart<br /></div>