IP detection

[Tim Jansen]

On Monday 12 August 2002 16:40, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Yet there are systems where that will backfire. I think that the best way
> is to provide a configuration mecanism, even if it includes the same
> auto-detection.

Fortunately these systems are not those used by most newbies and "regular" end 
users. Somebody, who has several ethernet cards or a VPN on a desktop 
machine, should know that this requires extra-configuration and will 
hopefully be smart enough to find the settings in the Control Center (or 
maybe the settings dialog could appear when an app needs a IP and the 
auto-conf gives up). But you can not present such a configuration mechanism 
to a newbie. In the best case she will just take the default and is confused 
by that strange dialog. In the worst case she cancels it because she is 
afraid to "break" something.

bye...