On Apr 3, 2012, at 5:59 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi Julien,
> 
>> In the current Connman version the "state"  of the manager API is
>> either "offline" or "online".
>> If only one device is marked as connected the global state is "online".
>> 
>> So the global online state doesn't have the same signification for the
>> service state, it's a little bit confusing.
>> 
>> The service state makes the difference between "online" and "ready"
>> and detects well the Internet availability.
>> 
>> Why don't we notifies a global state "online" when we have Internet
>> and "ready" when we have an IP configuration ?
>> 
>> He could be usefull for the applications who are waiting for Internet
>> without checking the whole list of services state.
> 
> I rather have applications use the Session API, than this global state.
> 
> And maybe we just better remove it before 1.0 release.

-1. While it certainly has its limitations, the simplicity of the Manager.State 
element has value and, at this point, I'd rather avoid having to rewrite most 
of our application when transitioning from 0.76 to 1.0.

-Grant
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