[Oneiric-Topic] Desktop-side networking enhancements

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

Hi all,

As you may be aware, the next release will most likely bring in the
new version of NetworkManager (0.9 now) with all kinds of fun stuff,
like WiMAX and me porting the indicator patch to any changes that may
have been made to nm-applet for 0.9, unless it makes it upstream
before then ;)

However, I think it also means it's the right time to look into
further things that you may wish to see in the desktop environment to
go with NetworkManager. Here I'm thinking about some of the things
that came up before in bugs, brainstorm ideas, and the like:

- NM integration with firewall configuration
- NM integration with proxy configuration
- Changing defaults for connection names/notifications/identification of devices
    - See http://blog.cyphermox.net/2011/03/idea-27250-auto-eth0-isnt-very-user.html

I'd also like to turn on IPv6 in NM by default; with the obvious
limitation that it won't block interfaces from coming up if there is
no IPv6 available.

I've limited myself to the *desktop* aspect of things here, but I'm
obviously open to idea that won't just affect the Desktop flavour as
well.

So, any ideas and wild dreams?

Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu-tl at ubuntu.com>
Freenode: cyphermox, Jabber: mathieu.tl at gmail.com
4096R/EE018C93 1967 8F7D 03A1 8F38 732E  FF82 C126 33E1 EE01 8C93