D26392: Add option to easily configure and start a hotspot

[Aleix Pol Gonzalez]

apol added a comment.


  In D26392#588345 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D26392#588345>, @jgrulich wrote:
  
  > 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.
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  >
  > That's a question. Do we want to allow to create a hotspot if users are already connected to w WiFi network?  You are allowed to do this for example on Android. Users might not realize why they are not allowed to create a hotspot and disconnecting from WiFi doesn't seem to me be a good first step.
  
  
  Leaving the user without a connection would be quite dishearting and possibly confusing.
  
  I can imagine the use-case of: I am in this building with weird authentication (thinking university) and I want to share that connection with my phone, so I create a hotspot and we don't have to do weird configuration on the phone. Would apply to e.g. vpns too.

REPOSITORY
  R116 Plasma Network Management Applet

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

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