On Fri 20 Feb 2009 12:46:23 NZDT +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > This is IMHO the problem when operating system tasks (networking) are > handed off to some desktop app.
Do you have a better solution? There are many cases where hardware has to be handled with user interaction. The 90s unix ways are no longer adequate. Dito for software - wouldn't an application-based packet filter with user interaction be nice too? On top of, of course, not as replacement. You could also stay with KDE 3.x for as little longer. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
