[Kde-hardware-devel] Making Konqueror(/kio?) network-aware

[Eduardo Robles Elvira]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Eduardo Robles Elvira <edulix at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm curious about solid. I've seen in the tutorial [0] which shows how
> easy it is to detect if network is connected or not, but I don't
> really know how exactly could we use this in konqueror. Use case:
>
> 1. User starts the computer and KDE
> 2. User opens Konqueror and types www.kde.org.
> 3. Internet is not working yet, so konqueror shows an error about site
> not available.
>
> AFAIK this is what happens currently. Perhaps with the help of solid,
> this could be improved to:
>
> 3. Internet is not working yet, so konqueror tries to connect through
> network manager or whatever, while showing a message saying "page will
> start loading when network becomes available"
> 4. Konqueror somehow triggers network-manager to connect to some
> network, user enters kwalletmanager password or whatever it's needed,
> and finally network becomes available.
> 5. Konqueror automatically loads the webpage(s) pending.
>
> I don't know exactly if solid triggers network-manager, if we can get
> a signal when network becomes available, if the integration should be
> done at kio level instead, or if somebody is already working on this
> already. Any help would be welcome.
>
> Regards,
>    Eduardo Robles Elvira.
>
>
> --
> [0]  http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Solid_Network_Tutorial
>

 Is any of what I suggest in my email possible? Is it a stupid
question? Any comments? :P