Some points/issues to discuss about the desktop

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Mark Shuttleworth">

> For future, our best proposal is an install-time check that decides what
> the default panel should look like. If you want that to happen each time
> the machine boots, then remember we have to figure out if the user has
> already decided to remove that panel. So for example, if I don't have a
> wifi card, it shouldn't show up. Then I boot with a wifi card, and it
> should show. I decide I don't need it and remove it. Now I boot again - it
> should NOT show... because I already decided I didn't want it.
> 
> Ouch, that could be hairy. Not even Hoary :-)
> 
> And, of course, what we really want is for the applet to appear magically
> when the user hotplugs a cardbus wifi card for the first time :-)

It actually ends up being easier to do the latter. Scott has some ideas on
how to implement this sanely, and Red Hat's NetworkManager will provide the
network-side infrastructure for this, too.

- Jeff

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