Lessons from XP

[Tollef Fog Heen]

* Nathaniel McCallum 

| A good bit of this should be able to be autodetected.  For instance, you
| can often ping the gateway, proxy, etc.  I suspect that a large number
| of cases could be autodected (ie. try on each profile for 'fit').  With
| a default profile to fall back to, it should "just work".  The logic
| would take some good programing.

<shameless plug>
intuitively does this, though it's «just» a console application
</shameless plug>

(and so does divine, whereami and all the other similar tools.)

Could be interesting to make it into a user-usable library, though, or
make it dbus-aware so it could see «hey, we seem to be at
home-wavelan, let's broadcast that on the dbus» and apps could listen
in on that.

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are      : :' :
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