NetworkManagement, was Re: Task Proposal: base system working Mer setup

[Stefan Werden]

On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:48:03 +0100, Fania Bremmer wrote:
> Am 20.01.2012 12:52, schrieb Thomas Pfeiffer:
>>> Taking a step back, I don't think that all of this is necessary for
>> something
>>> that has a fairly simple role. Basically, all you need to do is 
>>> choose a
>>> network to connect to, and possibly provide a password. Forgetting 
>>> a
>> known
>>> connection would be needed, and possibly means to share your 
>>> connection.
>>> This
>>> would likely cover 99% of all likely usecases.
>> +1.
>> People want to get their device online with as few steps as 
>> possible, and
>> that's it.
> +2
> In PA2 the wifi dialog on the MeeGo image showed a lot of empty
> details anyways where the data was missing.
> If something more needs to be configure we could put it in the 
> settings app.
Today there is no "standard way" in Plasma Active. Balsam is using more 
or less the KDE-Desktop way for configuration configuring WIFI and GSM. 
The UX-experience with that has a clear space for improvment to make it 
more compliant to touch/multitouch. AND it is not always clear if you 
have network or not. This is reflekting more or less a static user that 
is not moving around and switching networks while he is walking. Going 
to the mobile world will need some adoptions here and thinking how to 
design this. The desktop way was never sufficiant for that (sorry).

Network sharing and special stuff may be something we should thing 
putting this to an app. Getting a network and sharing network with 
others are two different use cases. That is usually for what apps are 
made for.

regards,

Stefan