wireless network idea

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 02:34:41PM -0400, **** * ****** wrote:
> Monday October 10, 2005 (Ontario, Canada)
> 
> Dear all,
>  I am Kyle Anthony Brooks from Toronto, Ontario, Canada and am a member of 
> the Ubuntu New User Network. I am sending you this e-mail to propose an 
> (major, in my opinion) new Graphical User Interface for the next version of 
> Ubuntu after Breezy.
>  The new graphical user interface shall henceforth be called the "Wireless 
> Network Connection Interface".
>  The Wireless Network Connection Interface will be a tool for making 
> wireless connections to the Internet or to a wireless network.
>  The WNCI will, upon startup, do the following things (of course with user 
> input):
> [...]

There exists a program called NetworkManager which does much of this
already, and we plan to integrate it during the next release cycle.
You can read more about this effort here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NetworkMagic

-- 
 - mdz