> There won't ever be user-defined priorities in NM. Old comment, no rationale. Time for a change ?
Instead of full-blown network prioritization which would involve a gui to sort connections and careful thinking to ensure that the connection selection stays predictable, would it be enough to add a boolean "preferred" field ? In the original example, "home" and "work" would be marked as preferred, while "beeline-wifi-free" would not. A quick glance at the NetworkManager source code makes me think that it shouldn't be too hard to add a "preferred" attribute to network connections, and to use it in the connection_sort function (nm- settings.c). It would be shown as a checkbox in nm-applet. If more granularity is required, a numeric "priority" attribute could be used instead. If it seems to confusing to expose a numeric connection priority value to the users, it could still be shown as a "preferred" checkbox in nm-applet, leaving it to power users to edit the numeric value manually in the configuration file if required. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/366780 Title: Please provide a mechanism whereby Wi-Fi networks can be prioritized Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: network-manager I've got few wifi network profiles. NM connects to 1st available network in alphabetical order. But at my home NM connects to slow and unstable free network and I want to connect to my own wifi router. I suggest to add some priorities to different networks to set the order which network to connect to. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/366780/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
