Ubuntu 8.10 applets not saving properties - sounds + NetManager

[Derek Broughton]

Mihai Tanasescu wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:

> My normal connection is static IP from the ISP.
> I also have a wifi usb stick (which I use only when I'm left without any
> ISP connection) and with which I can locate a free hotspot which emits
> nearby (and from there I do get automatic IP via DHCP).

OK, I understand now.
>>
>> In 95% of cases, if you need to "workaround" a bug, you have to consider
>> whether there's really a bug or whether you're doing things the wrong
>> way.
>>   
> Software that provides an option that doesn't work as intended..should
> be considered a bug otherwise the functionality shouldn't have been there.
> My 2 cents.

You're right.  That's why I said that it wasn't excusable that Network
Manager has bugs that should have been fixed years ago.  The problem isn't
really network-manager - I've argued this to death months ago - but it is
true that the configuration screen you are using gets invoked from
Network-manager, and it is true that _that_ application (part of System
Settings in Kubuntu, I can't recall what the comparable config is called in
Ubuntu) won't always save the configuration.  I wonder if, in your case, it
would have been more successful if invoked directly from System Settings.

-- 
derek