D26392: Add option to easily configure and start a hotspot

[Alex Debus]

alexde added a comment.


  > UI-wise, this would probably be better off as a button than a checkbox.
  
  Personally, I'm more inclined to a checkbox. Why is "turn wifi on/off" not an action? Right now, I don't see the big difference.
  
  (I assume "hotspot" and "shared wifi" are equivalent.)
  
  1. If you have configured several hotspots in the KCM, you probably need to choose a default one or a specific one when activating the hotspot.
  2. What do you think about adding a small configure button for the default hotspot directly on the plasma-nm frontend  next to the hotspot checkbox/button?
    - That would make it much easier for newcomers to use and configure their hotspot without first digging in the KCM.
  3. I also think that a hotspot (shared wifi) connection should be better separated from the other wifi connections in the KCM. If I create a new hotspot in the KCM now, it hides in the long list of known connections.
  4. That's somehow also true for the plasma-nm list of available networks: It's not really clear that a hotspot in the list is a indeed hotspot but not another access point.
  
  In D26392#587159 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D26392#587159>, @mthw wrote:
  
  > @apol You are right, it is not possible to create a hotspot if one is already connected to a WiFi network. Currently enabling hotspot disables your previous connection (WiFi) and hides available WiFi networks.
  
  
  Is this also true if one has two wifi network cards? IIRC I could run both with an additional usb netwok card simultaneously.
  
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  @jgrulich do you intend to create another patch to display all connected clients, similiar to the list of active connections? :)

REPOSITORY
  R116 Plasma Network Management Applet

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phabricator.kde.org/D26392

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