Junior Job - option to choose between 'WLAN Interface' and 'wlan0' in UI

[Will Stephenson]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207445 :

Some users prefer descriptive names eg 'Wireless Interface', others prefer
technical names eg 'eth0, wlan0'.  This junior-job is about making it possible
to choose.   

The different styles are illustrated in the UnconfiguredInterfaceItem
constructor in monolithic/unconfiguredinterfaceitem.cpp

For this job you would have to 

1) extend KNetworkManagerServicePrefs (via libs/internals/knmserviceprefs.kcfg)
to store this preference

2) provide a checkbox somewhere in settings/config/traysettings.ui and
settings/config/managetraywidget.cpp to control this setting

3) use this setting throughout monolithic and libs/ui to show either the
Solid::Device description or interface name.  At some points in the code I have
already provided an if clause to do this, see UnconfiguredInterfaceItem as
above.  You can probably find all the places to change by grepping for
Solid::Device.
As usual, ask here or on IRC (wstephenson in #solid) for advice on this JJ.

Will
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