Enabling Connectivity Checking in NetworkManager

[Marc Deslauriers]

On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 15:36 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 03:27:07 PM Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> > Solving it for a good proportion of cases is better than not solving it
> > at all.
> > 
> > It drives me nuts that Evolution and gnome-xchat spew error messages
> > before I log into a portal, when this problem is already solved on other
> > operating systems by using essentially the same technique.
> 
> I've got absolutely no objection to this if it's defaulted off for people like 
> you that want it.  

This is useful for non-power users. Power users already know how to turn
the appropriate knobs to turn unwanted features off.

> 
> My MUA and IRC client of choice just let me know they can't connect.  There's 
> no spew of error messages.  If the problem is spew of error message when 
> connectivity is lacking (which can happen for lots of reasons), I think this 
> is the wrong way to solve it.

I disagree.

Marc.