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

[Eduardo Robles Elvira]

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.


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[0]  http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Solid_Network_Tutorial