Lessons from XP

[Thom May]

* Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen at raw.no) wrote :
> * 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.
> 
That's where NetworkManager appears to be going. I have prelim packages, but
they don't fully work yet. Still playing.
-Thom

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That sounds like a lot of work... Can we out source?
The Revolution will not be outsourced!
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