Marcel Holtmann <[email protected]> writes: > Hi Kalle,
Hi Marcel, >> My plan is to use scanning indication to warn the user that the >> available network list in a dialog will be updated soon. Showing some >> scanning animation would do that. > > feel free to send a patch that adds this on the Technology interface. I > will have a look at it. I'll do that, but I can't do it right now. I first need to implement the dialog I was talking about. I hope someone else is faster than me :) > However be warned that this is really useless in case of WiFi. And it > makes only sense if it is a user triggered transaction. For example > wpa_supplicant has to scan in the background for you anyway. Background scans are separate, I'm not interested about those at all and do not want to expose them on UI. Here I'm talking about active, connman triggered, scans. >> Like Aapo said, a cryptic SSID is one good example. Also there's a case >> if there are two networks with same SSID but different encryption >> settings. I have this case already with my n900: one is open network, >> the other one uses WPA-PSK and both have the same SSID. It would be >> really nice to have different names for these two networks. > > That argument does not fly with me. You get the encryption details from > ConnMan and you can just present that properly in the UI. That is an > actual UI detail. But the user might not want to differentiate them from settings, but instead have a proper name. > And I am still not convinced that aliasing services is a good idea. You > guys have to come up with something better than just cryptic SSID that > you only see once in your life. It is not that you can't do this in the > UI itself if you really want to. Of course we can do almost everything we want from UI, but they all will be ugly and unreliable. Or we can even patch connman ourselves. But as connman already has a nice interface for UI, it doesn't really make sense creating ugly hacks. Better to do it right and implement these in connman. -- Kalle Valo _______________________________________________ connman mailing list [email protected] http://lists.connman.net/listinfo/connman
