Enabling Connectivity Checking in NetworkManager

[Scott Kitterman]

On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 03:53:53 PM Mario Limonciello wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Scott Kitterman 
<ubuntu at kitterman.com>wrote:
> > On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 03:46:18 PM Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> > > This is useful for non-power users. Power users already know how to turn
> > > the appropriate knobs to turn unwanted features off.
> > 
> > Only if they know about it.  Even most power users don't go digging
> > through
> > their system's setting after each upgrade to see what's new that they
> > might
> > want to change (OK, maybe they do on Gnome, because it doesn't take long,
> > but
> > I don't thinke KDE users do).
> > 
> > On a related note, does the Plasma (KDE) NM widget have the U/I to
> > manipulate
> > this?
> > 
> > Scott K
> 
> If having this enabled is a privacy concern, I feel like this should really
> be resting in the privacy control panel in Unity not in NM itself.

Which helps users of other desktop environments not at all.

It would be useful to have a single place where all such connections could be 
disabled (NTP does it, Firefox does it, I'm sure others do too).

Scott K