kubuntu-users Digest, Vol 51, Issue 134

[marc]

hvralpha said:
>> Paul Lemmons said:
>> > From: marc <gmane at auxbuss.com>
>> >
>> >> Paul Lemmons said:
>> >
>> > <snip>
>> >
>> >> What am I missing?
>> >>
>> >> Removing Network Manager and amending /interfaces.
>> >
>> > Interesting... I thought we were supposed to moving *away* from
>> > backend file editing. I have not had to do this for a very long time.
>>
>> That would be fine if the front end apps were changing the appropriate
>> .conf files. Network Manager doesn't and I think this is a serious
>> flaw.
>>
>> One of Linux's strengths is being able to go to the canonical location
>> and fix things by hand when things go wrong. I'm not advocating this
>> above pointy clicky interfaces, I'm all for ease of use, but there has
>> to be an associate convention.
> 
> Paul, A Static IP address can be set up in the new network manager
> applet. That is where it should be.
> Just add a interface  and fill in its data. No need to add anything in
> the interfaces files in text form.

You're missing the point, which is: that NM _should_ be manipulating /
interfaces not that the user should do this directly. I'm happy doing 
that, but I understand that this is not ideal.

Instead, NM is going off into its own "proprietary" world.

There, I said it.

-- 
Best,
Marc